SUNY Shared Monograph Collection Pilot Project
The SUNY Collections and Access Council (SCAC) was asked to implement a SUNY-wide cooperative collection development program. SCAC developed a pilot project to expand the depth of the collection for eight University Presses. They are Cornell University Press, Duke University Press, Harvard University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, University of Minnesota Press, University of Washington Press and Yale University Press.
The university presses were selected based upon data from the interlibrary loan departments at the four university centers. The data collected demonstrated the need to expand the selections for these university presses and for Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press. Including these two presses was cost prohibitive for the pilot program.
SCAC contracted with Yankee Book Peddler, Inc. to supply the books for this pilot project. All four university centers contributed an equal amount in order to purchase nearly a complete run of the eight university presses for publication year 2006. Additionally, SCAC may monitor the availability of electronic versions of the titles acquired in print on this plan and may consider future consortial purchasing of e-books.
The books purchased this year will be housed at the University at Albany, University Libraries and Binghamton University Libraries. The University at Albany will be housing approximately 550 shared collection books published by Belknap Press/Harvard, Harvard University Press, Saur/University of Michigan Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of Minnesota Press in the University Library and Science Library within the existing collection.
Yankee Book Peddler supplies a brief record for each title when it is shipped to us. The brief records will appear in MINERVA in all capital letters with the status On Order. After the books are cataloged, the books may be identified by the appearance of a 590 note and the 866 field in the bibliographic record; formatted as follows:
590 a SUNY Shared Collection
866 a SUNY Shared Collection.
i InterLibrary Loan requests expedited for other SUNY campuses
The books will be searchable in Minerva via several strategies, including use of the SUNY Shared Collection logical base and keyword search on "SUNY Shared Collection" in the Notes field. An example of a SUNY Shared Collection title is Nature and history in American political development : a debate.
SUNY Shared Collections books housed at the University at Albany, University Libraries will circulate according to regular loan policies based on borrower status. They will be integrated into the circulating collection in open stacks in the University and Science Libraries. No special rules or restrictions will apply for circulation activity.
SUNY Shared Collections books housed at the University at Albany, University Libraries will be expedited to the rest of the SUNY system through interlibrary loan. A special ILL loan period will be in effect for this collection: 3 months for faculty and graduate students and 6 weeks for undergraduates. These titles will also be lent to non-SUNY libraries but are subject to recall if they are requested by a SUNY faculty member or student.
Books from the SUNY Shared Collection housed at the Binghamton University Libraries can be ordered through Interlibrary Loan here at the University at Albany, University Libraries and will be expedited to University at Albany faculty and students and made available to them for the same loan periods noted above.