The Story of a Shared Last Copy Repository in Australia: The CARM Centre Stage 2 Development

Wright, Janette; Jilovsky, Cathie; Anderson, Craig

doi:10.1080/01462679.2012.685435

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“…Kieft and Payne also contributed to a special issue (Volume 37, Nos 3 & 4) of Collection Management devoted to shared print repositories published in late 2012. The twelve articles in this special issue reported in the main on developments within existing USA local and regional repositories, but also included contributions from Canada (Bird and Ashoughian, 2012) and Australia (Wright, Jilovsky and Anderson, 2012). Articles that dealt with more general matters related to shared print storage included a contribution by Susan Clement (2012) tracing the shift in collection collaboration from acquisitions to storage and the emergence of more geographically distributed regional stores; and Samuel Demas and Mary E. Miller on the need for libraries (and networks of libraries) to update their collection management policy and planning documents as they "reenvision collection management in the context of local, regional, and national priorities" (168).…”

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“…A substantial extension to the CARM Centre (CARM2) was opened in December 2010, and this development has been described in a paper by Jeanette Wright (who followed O'Connor as the CEO of CAVAL), Cathie Jilovsky and Craig Anderson (2012). An interesting element of this paper is the description of the business case for the building of this extension in circumstances where "there was little appetite among government agencies for funding the extension" (276).…”

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An international review of the development and implementation of shared print storage

Genoni

2013

Australian Academic & Research Libraries

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This article undertakes a review of the literature related to shared print storage and national repositories from 1980-2013. There is a separate overview of the relevant Australian literature. The coverage includes both relevant journal literature and major reports. In the process the article traces the developments in the theory and practice of shared print storage as the rapid emergence of digital content and services became apparent. This includes the increasingly broad-scale that has emerged in the planning for future print storage. Note is also taken of the paucity of research based evidence, and the discrepancies between the literature representing the interests of professional bodies with supra-regional responsibilities and the (sometimes) lack of activity or engagement by managers of individual collections.

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An international review of the development and implementation of shared print storage

Genoni

2013

Australian Academic & Research Libraries

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“…Nonetheless the shared infrastructure continues to provide economies of scale and other benefits. The success of the construction project was a combination of shared The CARM2 print repository expertise -CAVAL's experience in operating a print repository, good partnerships with experts in other fields (architects, engineers, project managers, builders, shelving specialists) and the continuity of personnel and expertise over the length of the project (Wright et al, 2012).…”

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The CARM2 print repository: from planning to operations

Jilovsky¹

2013

Library Management

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to present a case study of the planning and construction of a print repository for CAVAL, an Australian consortium of academic libraries. A key service is the management of the CARM (CAVAL Archival and Research Materials Centre), a purpose‐built, high‐density, environmentally controlled storage facility designed for the long‐term storage and preservation of print materials. The initial module, CARM1, began operations in 1996 and filled to capacity over a ten year period. To meet predicted demand for ongoing storage of low‐use paper‐based research materials, CAVAL has now built a second storage facility, CARM2.Design/methodology/approachThe planning for CARM2 commenced with a review that assessed options available to CAVAL member universities for the long term storage of low‐use print material. This review analysed alternative storage solutions from the perspective of university users to assess the financial and non‐financial impacts associated with each option. The results provided an indicative evaluation of the comparison of alternative storage options taking into consideration the quantitative, qualitative and risk implications of each from the perspective of a potential user. Nine options are described and analysed, and the reasons for the selection of the CARM2 option as the preferred model.FindingsThe development and implementation of the business model, the impact on the design and funding model, the lessons learned from the management of the original CARM facility and the construction and commissioning of CARM2 are described. This is followed by a discussion of ongoing issues associated with the ownership and governance of the shared facility and the trends away from the shared collection model.Originality/valueThis paper will be of interest and value to other organisations or consortia with an interest in the feasibility, possible business models, development and construction, and/or operations of a print repository.

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“…In the absence of a national strategy the leadership with regard to shared storage has been taken by the Victorian-based CARM Centre. CARM operates as both a repository, with ownership of items ceded to the CARM Centre operator CAVAL and the resulting collection (CARM Collection) de-duplicated; and as a store, with libraries leasing space to house their lowuse materials of which they retain ownership (O'Connor 2004;Wright, Jilovsky, and Anderson 2012). CARM remains, however, a largely regional service, with nine of the 11 member universities being based in Victoria.…”

Section: Australiamentioning

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“…CARM remains, however, a largely regional service, with nine of the 11 member universities being based in Victoria. It is also notable that the recent extension for the CARM Centre (CARM2) depended on a business model based on the leasing of space for storage rather than the further development of the repository-style CARM Collection (Wright, Jilovsky, and Anderson 2012). This shift in focus within Australia in the post-DNC era is in line with developments in cooperative collection management of print elsewhere, which has seen the focus shift from the beginning of the life-cycle (selection and acquisition) to the end (storage and disposal) (Clement 2012).…”

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A Distributed National Stored Collection: Testing the Possibilities

Genoni

2013

Australian Academic & Research Libraries

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This paper reports on a study of the holdings of a single discipline (Design) by a single institution (RMIT University Library) in order to test for the possibility of a form of distributed national storage in Australia. The study was undertaken using OCLC Collection Analysis software and the WorldCat database. The collection of RMIT University Library is compared with two "groups" of libraries, the first consisting of seven Victorian academic library collections, and the second of three Melbourne-based non-academic libraries considered to have strong Design collections. Conclusions indicate that for this discipline a form of distributed storage is already in place, with the RMIT University Library collection making a considerable and complementary contribution to the state-wide holdings.

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The Story of a Shared Last Copy Repository in Australia: The CARM Centre Stage 2 Development

Cited by 11 publications

References 7 publications

An international review of the development and implementation of shared print storage

An international review of the development and implementation of shared print storage

The CARM2 print repository: from planning to operations

A Distributed National Stored Collection: Testing the Possibilities

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