Guiding Principles

A Strategic Outline: Mission, Vision, Guiding Principles, & Key Functional Areas

Approved February 2023

Mission

Through collaboration and innovation with trusted partners in an interoperable, community-owned infrastructure, CCLP will create best practices, improve standards, and develop prototype middleware to empower value-driven library collecting, increase collection diversity, availability and access, and improve stewardship and institutional efficiency in a collaboration-first environment. 

Vision

Our vision is for a world in which all libraries may have and steward equitable, financially sustainable, and efficient access to library resources and the scholarly record by fostering an ecosystem of interoperable systems, standards, and open collaboration among libraries, publishers, and service providers.

Guiding Principles

We believe that in order to be successful, the CCLP must: 

1. Build intentional and inclusive partnerships, process, and governance with a commitment to open dialogue that engages representatives from all dimensions of the collections lifecycle, with strategic direction, contributions, and co-ownership coming from all stakeholders who share the project’s goals 

2. Support and use provider neutral approaches to collaborative collections lifecycle activities, processes, and technologies

3. Prioritize interoperability and actively engage in the development and/or implementation of recognized standards as they relate to collaborative collections activities

4. Promote mutual understanding, shared responsibility, and stewardship of limited collections resources and capacity 

5. Create cost-effective, efficient, and highly usable solutions that support libraries’ missions and the ability of publishers, vendors, technology providers, and other partners to respond to those needs

6. Enhance libraries’ ability to provide and support collection diversity and accessibility of those collections for diverse user needs

7. Respect all stakeholders’ needs and sensitivity to data privacy and security

8. Engage with the challenges of access and acquisition models in a collaborative environment, with particular consideration for the models and mechanisms to support collaboration for and with open content

9. Adapt in order to remain grounded in pragmatism, articulated community need, and research

CCLP’s Key Functional Areas :

1. Design of organizational strategies and recommended practices for effective and efficient collaborations supporting collections equity and access 

2. Prototype of pragmatic, efficient, provider-neutral infrastructure, middleware, technology solutions, data workflows, and recognized standards to promote stewardship and support equity of access, usability, and diversity of collections

3. Facilitation of community conversations that incorporate diverse stakeholder perspectives promoting alignment around and commitment to shared challenges in scholarly communications with the goal of supporting equity in the pursuit of learning and truth through library collections.