Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship, Chapter 1: Collaboration: The Master Key to Unlocking Twenty-First-Century Library Collections

Author's final manuscript with permission of publisher.Authors draft of the introductory chapter of the monograph, "Shared Collections: Collaborative Stewardship." The chapter highlights key assumptions underpinning collection development and management that are being rethought. Key foundations for rethinking collection management, particularly print collection management are presented and discussed. The importance of collaborative and cooperative strategies for achieving new levels of scale and the consequent benefits are highlighted.No embarg