NISO announces call for participation for second cohort of CCLIP working groups

The IMLS-funded Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP), seeks to overcome serious barriers to wider implementations of cooperative collections management, including the lack of available vendor-neutral interoperable systems, adequate governance and decision-making frameworks, and assessment tools.

With NISO Library Standards Alliance membership now part of the benefits of being an Amigos member, opportunities to serve and learn have expanded! Read more to learn about an opportunity to serve on additional committees being created as part of the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP).

NISO now seeks volunteers for the second cohort of working groups to focus on additional elements of the overall Recommended Practice that will document exchange protocols that describe gathering, normalizing, and exchanging holdings information, contractual information, retention obligations, and usage data. The new working groups seeking volunteers are: Acquisitions, Assessment/Data Analysis, and Cataloging/Metadata. The groups’ work is expected to run from approximately September 2023 to October 2024. It’s anticipated that on average all working groups will meet virtually via Zoom twice a month for one-hour meetings with an additional 2–3 hours of offline work per month. Working group members will be expected to collect or create reference materials, analyze them through discussion, and collaboratively draft new outputs as part of their tasks. There may be additional methods or tools that working groups develop to support project outputs. NISO website.

If you are interested in joining, send a short email with a sentence or two describing your interest and which working group you'd like to participate in to nisohq@niso.org.