aserl-collection-strategy Mailing List: FW: Update on merger between Partnership and Rosemont

[John Burger, ASERL (jburger]

ASERL Colleagues:



Below is the latest update on the plan to merge the two existing shared print 
confederations (Rosemont Shared Print Alliance and the Partnership for Shared 
Book Collections) into a single organization.  The date for the merger is 
expected to be July 1, 2024.  Full disclosure:  I served on the Task Force that 
developed the plan for the merger.



ASERL is hosting a community call next week (May 8 2024, starting at 2pm ET) to 
review our shared print programming to date and get input from you-all about 
your foreseeable needs and interests in this arena.

  *   NOTE:  The focus of the May 8 call will be on ASERL's print journal 
retention / Scholars Trust programming -- not federal documents / CFDP.  The 
CFDP steering committee will seek input on that program separately.



Details of the 5/8/24 community call are below -- please join us as your 
schedules and interests permit!



ASERL Community Call: Shared Print Priorities

   Wednesday, May 8, 2pm ET/1pm CT

   REGISTER HERE: 
https://emory.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEsf-CgrDssHNXnWJHA2fP_7Dluh030PLTE



Feedback / questions are always welcome.



Thanks.



Kind regards,



--j.e.b.



John Burger, Executive Director

Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL)

540 Asbury Circle, #316

Atlanta, Georgia  30322



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From: Gwen Bird <mailto:gbird [at] sfu.ca>

Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2024 12:02 PM

To: mailto:all [at] sharedprint.org

Cc: Gregory Eow <mailto:geow [at] CRL.EDU>

Subject: Update on merger between Partnership and Rosemont



Dear Colleagues,

I write with a joint update from Greg Eow and myself, in our roles as 
respective chairs of the Partnership and Rosemont executive committees.

Since our last joint update in December, the Merger Implementation Task Force 
(MITF), charged in August 2023, conducted its work with the assistance Sarah 
Faye Cohen of thehttps://www.bigquestionscollab.com/. The Merger Implementation 
Task Force (MITF) has now defined pathways to merge these organizations into a 
single entity by July 1, 2024.



We share here, attached and 
https://sharedprint.org/wp-content/uploads/Shared_Print_Merger_Plan.pdf, the 
proposed action plan from the Merger Task Force (MITF).  We welcome feedback on 
this plan, which can be sent to us directly, in advance of the next joint 
Executive Committee meeting of the Partnership and Rosemont on Thursday, May 
9th. At the May 9th meeting, which we intend to be the final meeting of the 
joint-executives in its current configuration, we will devise an action plan to 
stand up the merged organization.



First, a word of gratitude. We thank members of the Merger Implementation Task 
Force (MITF) for their work, which included  representatives from both 
organizations' Operations and Executive groups:

• Aaron Krebeck, Washington Research Library Consortium (Rosemont OC)

• Anna Striker, California Digital Library (Partnership OC)

• Gwen Bird, Simon Fraser University (Partnership EC)

• John Burger, Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (Rosemont OC)

• Peggy Seiden, Swarthmore College, retired (Partnership EC)

• Scott Warren, Syracuse University (Rosemont EC)

• Stephen Connaghan, The Catholic University of America (Rosemont EC)

• Tony Fonseca, Elms College (Partnership OC)



The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) has agreed to serve as the fiscal agent 
for the new organization during its first year in order to allow for continuity 
and stability through this transition.

  *   Today will also be the last day for Partnership’s Program Manager Nika 
Worth, who is moving her home and moving on to new professional adventures. 
Best wishes to you from all of us, Nika, and thank you for your year + of 
outstanding work for the Partnership!
  *   We have engaged temporary administrative support from Minitex until the 
newly appointed Executive Committee is ready to define and recruit for a new 
staffer. I will share further details on this arrangement shortly.



We thank everyone for their contributions to this multi-year effort, and extend 
gratitude to current officers and committee members for Rosemont and the 
Partnership who have been serving in extended terms as we complete the merger. 
We welcome feedback from the community in advance of the May 9th meeting of the 
joint-executives, and look forward to the successful launch of the merged 
organization in the next few months.



With best wishes,

Gwen Bird, chair, https://sharedprint.org/about/ec/

Greg Eow, chair, https://rosemontsharedprintalliance.org/committees



_________________

Gwen Bird (she/her)

University Librarian & Dean of Libraries

Simon Fraser University

8888 University Dr.

Burnaby BC, Canada V5A 1S6

ph: 778.782.3265  |  http://www.lib.sfu.ca/



I respectfully acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh 
(Squamish), Səl̓ílwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), q̓íc̓əy̓ (Katzie), and kʷikʷəƛ̓əm 
(Kwikwetlem) Nations and peoples on whose ancestral and unceded lands the three 
SFU campuses are located.



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