Scholarly article by Michael Brewer and Niamh Wallace published in Collaborative Librarianship
Michael Brewer (left) and Niamh Wallace
Michael Brewer, Assistant Dean for Collections, and Niamh Wallace, Associate Librarian / Print & Collaborative Collection Initiatives Unit Lead in Collection Services, co-authored "Activating Shared Print as a Strategy for Legacy Print Access," which was published in the online journal, Collaborative Librarianship, on June 1, 2026.
Collaborative Librarianship was created "around the scholarship of collaboration and sharing of resources and expertise within and between libraries," and is sponsored by the Colorado Library Consortium, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries, Regis University, and the University of Denver.
Abstract:
“While most libraries participate in collaborative shared print efforts but tend only to rely on them as a failsafe, this article underscores the timeliness and importance of more libraries 'activating' shared print as a core strategy for access to legacy print content.
The University of Arizona's experiences with SCELC and HathiTrust for monographs and the WEST-Internet Archive pilot for serials are discussed as examples of how libraries might choose to pursue this approach." Read full article.