Sustainable Collection Services (SCS) offers deselection decision-support tools to academic libraries.
Upcoming Events
- May 21, 2013: ASERL Webinar on Monographs Collection Assessment and demo of SCS GreenGlass. Registration information here.
- June 5, 2013 Rick Lugg will present 'Rethinking Library Resources: Print Collections in a Digital Age" for the Midwest Collaborative for Library Services in Lansing, Michigan.
- June 28, 2013 ALCTS Preconference on Shared Print Monographs: Making It Work. ALA Annual Conference, Chicago. Preview and details here.
SCS News
- SCS has created three tutorials on how to use our GreenGlass web application: 1. The Project Page (6 minutes), 2. The Collection Page (8 minutes), 3. The Analysis Page (8 minutes)
- For those considering the Shared Print Monographs preconference, we have posted a detailed schedule and description for the day, including topics and speakers, on our SCS Insight blog page. The day will showcase a range of shared print projects and a variety of techniques. Have a look and join us if you can.
- Library Journal Online recently featured an article about the unique aspects of the Maine Shared Collection Strategy (and the SCS role in providing analytics and project support): Major Maine Libraries, Public and Academic, Collaborate on Print Archiving Project.
- We are pleased to introduce SCS GreenGlass, our Web-based collection analysis tool for individual libraries. Please contact us for an introductory webinar or onsite demonstration.
- The SCS Deselection Knowledgebase is now freely available to the academic community. It includes 250 articles, white-papers, websites, blogs, slide decks, conference proceedings, and books - all focused on monographs weeding; offsite book storage; library space planning; shared print initiatives; collaborative collection management; collection use; collection assessment; national-level collections research; digital preservation; and various musings about the future of print collections. In short, the best available bibliography on the broad topic of deselection in academic libraries.
- Article for Insights: the UKSG Journal. Read the full text of Rick Lugg's Data-driven deselection for monographs: a rules-based approach to weeding, storage, and shared print decisions , which appears in the July 2012 issue of Insights. The piece is a sort of primer on the whys and hows of monographs deselection.
- Article on Library Logistics. Rick has written a guest column for Sam Demas’s Curating Collective Collections column in Against the Grain. Library Logistics: Archiving & Servicing Shared Print Monographs will appear in the June 2012 issue. [preprint]
- ATG Interview. In case you missed it: ATG interviews Rick Lugg & Ruth Fischer of Sustainable Collection Services.
- For other news on deselection, weeding, and shared print, see our blog SCS Insight.


