Collaborative collection development: a MedPrint case report

Background: In response to several of Texas’ largest medical libraries being forced discard all serial print holdings, the Texas A&M University System and System’s Joint Library Facility (JLF) staff worked help provide a solution save store these resources. This process fire-started comprehensive effort by JLF contact National Medicine (NLM) devise blueprint that would be used preserve resources listed in NLM’s retention program. Case Presentation: an unprecedented approach, launched efforts collect complete holdings range NLM MedPrint periodical runs. case report details planning steps took accomplish this feat; highlights important matters consideration for community which heavily relies upon continuous access materials; provides insight on apparent preservation vulnerabilities materials increasingly face environment where digitization may create false sense security. Discussion: By May 2021, had collected title runs up year 2000 202 254 titles, consists more than twelve thousand volumes. These proved particularly beneficial wake COVID-19 pandemic, halt ILL processing from their collection. During time, was uniquely positioned meet respond historic high number literature requests it received during time.