Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data To Explore Collaboration

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As art libraries face challenges from an evolving environment, repercussions from the COVID-19 pandemic, and static or diminishing resources, finding sustainable pathways forward becomes an increasing priority. An important option for art research collections in achieving long-term sustainability is collaboration.<br /> </p> </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <p><strong><em>Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data to Explore Collaboration</em></strong> is the first of two reports documenting the findings from the Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection project.聽</p> <p><strong>The report uses two approaches:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Collective collection analysis</strong>鈥擡xamines bibliographic and holdings data describing an art research collective collection in the US and Canada to illustrate how collection analysis can inform partnership decisions.</li> <li><strong>Resource sharing activity analysis</strong>鈥擜nalyzes data from resource sharing transactions involving art libraries to better understand these existing collection sharing partnerships and explores opportunities for other kinds of collaboration.</li> </ul> <p>This first report illustrates how quantitative analysis of library collection and activity data can be leveraged by library leaders to inform decisions about collaborative opportunities supporting art research collections.</p> <p><strong>The findings of this report:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Provide insight into the collections of libraries in the US and Canada supporting art research</li> <li>Highlight the unique value art libraries can bring to partnerships</li> <li>Point to possible future collaborative efforts around building, stewarding, and sharing art research collections</li> </ul> </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <h4>OPERATIONALIZING THE ART RESEARCH COLLECTIVE COLLECTION</h4> <p>Sustaining Art Research Collections is an outcome from the <a href="https://www.oclc.org/research/areas/library-collaboration-research/art-research-collective-collection.html" target="_blank" title="Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Project Page">Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection</a> project, which is supported through a grant by the <a href="https://www.kressfoundation.org/" target="_blank" title="Kress Foundation">Samuel H. Kress Foundation</a> with significant co-investment from OCLC. 聽</p> <p>The concept for this report originated in a 2019 discussion of challenges facing art research libraries between members of the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP). The issues identified by the RLP include:</p> <ul> <li>An acute lack of space at art research libraries</li> <li>Difficulties in arranging for off-site storage of art research print collections</li> <li>A lack of knowledge regarding the library collections of peer institutions</li> <li>The perceived value of art libraries partnering with other types of libraries on the shared management of print collections</li> </ul> <p>These conversations inspired a four-phase research project exploring opportunities for collaboration between art, academic, and independent research libraries.聽</p> <p>This project aims to help art libraries identify opportunities for beneficial partnerships around their collections, build effective collaborative structures to support these partnerships, and navigate the practical challenges involved in making collaborations sustainable and successful.</p> </div> </div> </div> <div class="parsys_column cq-colctrl-lt2-r-c1"> <div class="col1 parsys"><div class="highlightbox section">  <div class="hbox "> <div class="highlightbox parsys"><div class="image parbase section"> <figure class="figure-stack-image img-flt-left-nobrdr"> <img src="/content/research/publications/2023/sustaining-art-research/sustaining-art-research-collections/_jcr_content/par/parsyscolumncontrol/col1/highlightbox/highlightbox/image.img.png/1676415018959.png" alt="Cover image for Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data to Explore Collaboration" title="Sustaining Art Research Collections: Using Data to Explore Collaboration" class="cq-dd-image"> <figcaption> <div class="img-caption"></div> <div class="img-attribution"></div> </figcaption> </figure></div> </div> </div>  </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <h4>Quick Links</h4> <ul> <li>Short URL: <a title="Short URL Report Page" href="https://oc.lc/sustaining-art-research">oc.lc/sustaining-art-research</a></li> <li>DOI (US letter): <a title="DOI Link" href="https://doi.org/10.25333/V636-PE98">10.25333/V636-PE98</a></li> <li>DOI: (A4):聽<a title="DOI for A4 edition of the report" href="https://doi.org/10.25333/v56x-qa57">10.25333/v56x-qa57</a></li> <li>Part 2: <a title="Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration" href="https://www.oclc.org/research/publications/2023/sustaining-art-research/sustaining-art-research-collections-case-studies.html">Sustaining Art Research Collections: Case Studies in Collaboration</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <h4>Related Pages & Projects</h4> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.oclc.org/research/areas/library-collaboration-research/art-research-collective-collection.html" title="Operationalizing the Art Research Collection project page">Operationalizing the Art Research Collective Collection Project</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div></div> <div class="text parbase section"> <p style="float: left; margin-right: 50.0px;"><span class="link-btn-green"><a href="/content/dam/research/publications/2023/sustaining-art-research/oclcresearch-sustaining-art-research-collections.pdf" title="Download US Letter Format">Download US Letter .pdf</a></span></p> <p><span class="link-btn-green"><a href="/content/dam/research/publications/2023/sustaining-art-research/oclcresearch-sustaining-art-research-collections-a4.pdf" title="Download A4">Download A4 .pdf</a></span></p> <p>聽</p> </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <h2>Supplemental Material<br /> </h2> </div> <div class="text parbase section"> <h3>Image Gallery</h3> <p>OCLC Research encourages the reuse and distribution of our work by providing it with a <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" target="_blank">CC By 4.0 license</a>. 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