Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project

CCLP will facilitate community conversations to deploy recommended practices, tools, and other resources that enable the responsible development, stewardship, and use of library collections at scale.

A nationwide collaboration of organizations is seeking commitments and grant funding for an implementation effort to develop the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP). 

"Through collaboration, institutions can effectively cover core-collection areas and redirect scarce resources to improve the diversity and representation of collections by reinvesting resources in areas of social and cultural under-representation. By working together with trusted partners and in an interoperable, community-owned infrastructure, libraries will be able to reduce unnecessary duplication, increase availability of and access to a wider range of sources, better preserve and maintain these resources, and further enhance new and existing collaborative initiatives while maintaining their autonomy. Smaller publishers, open access publishers, and those that publish under-represented voices will be empowered through increased market share and preferred discoverability in the shared CCLP infrastructure."

"The CCLP infrastructure promises to optimize daily, network-first collaboration between libraries on the institutional, consortial, and inter-consortial levels. Its availability will improve equitable access to library acquisitions by giving small publishers and open access providers the preferred logistical footing as established for-profit publishers, and will encourage healthier scholarly communication lifecycle activities by directly partnering with university presses and not-for-profit providers." (excerpts from IMLS National Leadership Grant Proposal) 

The partnership is led by National Information Standards Organization (NISO), Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration & Innovation (PALCI), and Lehigh University Libraries. The infrastructure will create a suite of best practices, improved standards, and middleware for the development and management of collective collections and will support varied implementation models, data interoperability, and sharing of expertise across a range of institutions and consortia. 

This project builds greater community collaboration in smart collection management and promotes access to collections by improving institutional efficiency through partnership.