[Eril-l] NISO Publishes the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP) Recommended Practice

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Baltimore, Maryland, June 2, 2026: The National Information Standards
Organization (NISO) is pleased to announce the publication of the
Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP), NISO
RP-46-2026.

The Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP) is a
NISO Recommended Practice that is part of the IMLS-funded Collaborative
Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) (LG-252384-OLS-22
<https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-252384-ols-22>) co-led by NISO, the
Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI), and
Lehigh University Libraries. Networks of libraries have a long tradition of
working together to expand their collections and provide more comprehensive
coverage across all subjects through sharing of resources. To support these
strategies, larger networks of institutions have recently explored wider
adoption of cooperative collections management, which this project defines
as a process by which networks of institutions work collaboratively to
acquire, manage, circulate, and preserve collections across the network.
The CCLP seeks to overcome serious barriers to wider implementation,
including the lack of available vendor-neutral interoperable systems,
adequate governance and decision-making frameworks, and assessment tools.

Together, the CCLP and the resulting CCLIP Recommended Practice aimed to
enable the efficient selection, management, and sharing of collections by
developing a framework that libraries and consortia can use to share
expertise, data, and collections to efficiently steward limited resources
in serving library patrons.

CCLIP supported several working groups working in concert with the CCLP
Steering Committee and with one another on the Recommended Practice. Seven
groups—Acquisitions, Assessment/Data Analysis, Cataloging/Metadata,
Collections Development and Selection, Consortia, Infrastructure, and
Organizational Strategy and Governance—representing 72 individuals across
partner organizations developed the Recommended Practice.

“At a time of increasing financial pressures and growing demands on
libraries, collaborative stewardship is becoming more important than ever.
CCLIP offers a framework that can help institutions and consortia share
expertise, coordinate decision making, and make more effective use of
limited resources in service to researchers and learners,” states Boaz
Nadav-Manes, University Librarian, Lehigh University, and co-Principal
Investigator of the CCLP IMLS grant.

“We intend to put this work to immediate use, informing our future
consortial initiatives, tool development, and the governance structures
that will support them," said Jill Morris, PALCI Executive Director. "The
breadth of participation in the development of this Recommended Practice
across libraries of every type, publishers, software providers, and service
organizations substantially shaped our collective thinking, and we are
grateful to every contributor who brought their perspective and willingness
to collaborate on the challenges the library ecosystem faces.”

Todd Carpenter, NISO Executive Director, added, “The publication of the
Recommended Practice represents a critical step in realizing the goal of
the broader CCLP project: to facilitate collaborative practices across
institutions and support greater access to library resources. We’re excited
to see the efforts of our CCLIP Working Group volunteers come to fruition,
and we thank them for their efforts.”

The CCLIP Recommended Practice is freely available on the NISO website:
https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cclip.

About NISO
Based in Baltimore, MD, NISO’s mission is to build knowledge, foster
discussion, and advance authoritative standards development through
collaboration among the cultural, scholarly, scientific, and professional
communities. To fulfill this mission, NISO engages with libraries,
publishers, information aggregators, and other organizations that support
learning, research, and scholarship through the creation, organization,
management, and curation of knowledge. NISO works with intersecting
communities of interest and across the entire life cycle of information
standards. NISO is a nonprofit association accredited by the American
National Standards Institute (ANSI). For more information, visit the NISO
website (https://niso.org) or contact us at nisohq at niso.org.



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