Use case 9: National-scale collection management

Use | Supply

Description

Libraries face increasing pressures on space, and initiatives such as the UK Research Reserve attempt to enable holdings decisions on a larger scale than the individual institution. Holdings records (and some of their associated bibliographic information) are transferred to an external entity, which uses these records to inform decisions regarding these holdings.

Record flow

Bibliographic and holdings records are transferred from the member institutions to the service, where they can be analysed. Whether these records are then supplied back to member institutions depends on the detailed design of the service. The types of record flow are described in detail here.

Current examples

UKRR

Discussion

Similarly to [use-case 8], this example involves the transfer of records to an external organisation, but whether that transfer is use or supply depends on the relationships between the organisations.

Please note that the legal implications for your institution of this use case will depend upon your specific contractual relationships - for more information see the discussion of suppliers' and libraries' current viewpoints on what is allowable, and the legal environment.

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