Making Cooperative Collection Development A Reality

A Lesson In Patience

Paul O. Jenkins

College of Mount St. Joseph

Genesis of SWORCS

• CBTF membership

• Lining up the players

Members of SWORCS

• College of Mount St. Joseph

• Xavier University

• Cincinnati Bible College

• University of Dayton

• Cedarville College (added)

• Athenaeum of Ohio (unable to join)

• Miami University (added upon request)

So Now What?

• Serials Union List

• Budget comparisons

• Not Bought in Ohio

• Monographic Series

• WLN Conspectus

Finding Our Mission

• Non-Christian religions

• Islam

• Buddhism

• Judaism

• Hinduism

How Much Is Enough?

• Trying to establish acceptable minimum holdings standards

Bringing YBP Into the Picture

• GOBI Approval Plan

• Establishing Approval Plan Profiles

Reexamining the Mission

• to apply cooperative collection development principles in our libraries in order to reduce duplication of titles and better cover peripheral areas of Religious Studies;

• specifically, to create a shared slip approval plan profile in the area of non-Christian religions (specifics yet to be determined) that can serve as a model for larger OhioLINK groups in other disciplines.

Getting to Specifics

• Begin with retrospective purchases

Dividing Up Responsibilities

• Confucianism—XU

• Tenrikyo and Shinto—Miami.

• Taoism—UD.

• Bahai, Zoroastrianism, Rastafarianism—MSJ.

• Unitarianism, Scientology, Atheism—Cedarville

• Sikhism, Jainism—Cincinnati Bible.

Making a Financial Commitment

• $500 commitment from each school

Next Year

• Using the approval profiles for current purchases

Lessons Learned

• This is possible but difficult.

• Be patient.

• Start small.

• Be flexible.

• Be prepared to compromise.

• Vendor participation essential.

Questions?

• Contact Paul O. Jenkins

• 513-244-4351

• paul_jenkins@mail.msj.edu