The St. Cloud State University Library is one of 24 academic libraries from across Minnesota working together to ensure that nearly half a million scarcely-held books will remain available to Minnesotans for the foreseeable future.
The Minnesota Shared Print Program is a collaborative effort to preserve valuable research and literary resources, and it offers many benefits to Minnesotans.
Library users will retain access, through interlibrary loan, to the 500,000 books preserved through the program. Meanwhile, participating academic libraries will retain the flexibility to manage their collections, services and spaces effectively.
“With one of the largest library collections in the state, our library team has done an amazing job throughout the last three years, and we are proud that we will continue to be leaders for this legacy project,” said Rhonda Huisman, Dean of the University Library.
These efforts follow the success of the Cooperative Collection Management Project, a 2019 pilot project that saw six libraries, including SCSU, achieve the same objectives on a smaller scale.
The Minnesota Shared Print Program’s administrative home is Minitex, a division of the University of Minnesota Libraries, directly funded by the Minnesota Office of Higher Education.
