Background

Throughout 2020 and 2021, Boaz Nadav Manes convened a group of more than 25 representatives from cross-industry stakeholders, including libraries, consortia, publishers, and technology providers. The group ("Avengers") began meeting regularly to discuss the challenges of and barriers to the laborious process of building and managing collaborative collections initiatives.

Original Project Charter

The CCLP initiative is directly influenced and continues prospective collections infrastructure work formerly conducted at Cornell University Libraries ("ITSC CUL", 2004), OCLC ("WorldCat Selection", 2006) the 2CUL initiative (Pre-Ordering Online Form "POOF!", 2009), and discussions and reports produced for the Ivies Plus Confederacy Collections Committee ("Ivy Plus Collaborative Selection Tool group", 2016-2017).

The recent "Avengers" discussions considered the successes and failures of previous efforts, which centered primarily on the inability to effectively exchange data about networked collections and collections-related expertise at scale, exposing a shared need and revealing a community of stakeholders eager to focus on reducing barriers to implementing collaborative collections.