<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div id="m_3155932379408984046gmail-:1nl" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:210px" aria-controls=":1uf" aria-expanded="false"><span id="m_3155932379408984046gmail-docs-internal-guid-7e303329-7fff-0f02-a430-726d27c14174"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.50545;margin-top:1pt;margin-bottom:4pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,43,73);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">**Apologies for cross posting**</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,43,73);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Baltimore, Maryland | November 6, 2025 - </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Infrastructure Project (CCLIP) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-46-202X) is now available for public comment through December 15, 2025, at the project web page: </span><a href="https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cclip" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(150,96,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.niso.org/standards-committees/cclip</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. The community is encouraged to read and comment on the draft recommendations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The CCLIP Recommended Practice represents both a collective and aggregated vision for how libraries can work together more intentionally and equitably across various aspects of the collections life cycle, embracing open, inclusive, and sustainable approaches to build stronger, more responsive library ecosystems. The draft describes various levels of collaboration, then uses a loose collaboration model to explore best practices, gaps, and opportunities to better support prospective collaborative collections decisions. The recommendations examine such structured collaborations in light of organizational strategies and governance, collection development and selection, acquisition, data and assessment, cataloging and metadata, and consortial frameworks. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The CCLIP Recommended Practice is one element of the larger </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/cclifecycleproject/home" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(150,96,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (CCLP), which aims to improve the development and management of library collections through cross-institutional partnerships. Funded in part with a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the CCLP project is a community effort supported by participation of more than 70 institutions co-led by NISO, the Partnership for Academic Library Collaboration and Innovation (PALCI), and Lehigh University Libraries. Components of the CCLP project that have been previously distributed include a </span><a href="https://sr.ithaka.org/blog/collaborative-collection-development/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(150,96,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">study of community collaboration conducted by Ithaka S+R</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and development of a </span><a href="https://video.niso.org/EducationVideo/Awareness-Informed_Action%3a_Empowering_Collaborative_Collection_Building_-_CCLP_Winter_2025_Public_Update_Webinar/e592ec5c-daf3-49db-a4dd-15f7618c2463" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(150,96,125);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">prototype middleware to facilitate these collaborations</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">“The CCLIP project is an important step forward toward improving interlibrary collaboration,” said Jill Morris, Executive Director of PALCI, and co-PI of the project. “This recommended practice represents the first detailed description of the many components that would need to work together to advance collective collections management in the library community. We hope this guidance will support further collaborative networks and additional development work related to how libraries can work more effectively together.”  </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">“For libraries of all types, partnerships with other institutions are an obvious means of collectively offering the best resources to our users, increasing capacity, improving services, and building efficiency,” added fellow co-PI Boaz Nadav Manes, University Librarian at Lehigh University. “Still, cooperative initiatives have long been challenged by complex organizational structures, limited data exchange and interoperability, and the absence of robust decision-support frameworks. Strategies to address these challenges are described in this Recommended Practice. Combined with the prototype work of CCLP, we’ve made significant progress in demonstrating how libraries can work together more effectively to serve their patrons.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">NISO’s Standards Program Manager Keondra Bailey adds, “NISO would like to express its sincere appreciation to the many members of the CCLIP Working Groups, as well as the CCLP Steering Committee for their dedicated efforts in undertaking guidance for this significant initiative. We urge the community to actively share their insights and feedback, as their contributions are crucial to shaping the future of this Recommended Practice."</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The draft Recommended Practice is available for comment through December 15, 2025. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<br></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">About NISO</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">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 (<a href="https://niso.org" target="_blank">https://niso.org</a>) or contact us at <a href="mailto:nisohq@niso.org" target="_blank">nisohq@niso.org</a>.</span></p></span></div></div>
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