CoFoR (Collaboration For Research)

Beginning in January 2003, CoFoR is a project aiming to promote collaborative collection management and is a new CURL initiative set up to provide its members and other research libraries with practical tools such as templates, guidelines and recommendations for collaborative acquisition and retention.

Special attention will also be given to techniques for serial deduplication and to the mapping of relationships between research activity and library provision.

The project will build on work already carried out by the RSLP Collaborative Collection Management for Russian & East European Studies project (or COCOREES) and by the CURL Task Force on Resource Management. The service offered by the COCOREES database will be maintained.

The 10 year partnership agreement on retention and acquisition resulting from the project remains in being. This means we are involved in providing information on:

• changes to REES collecting policy and REES research supported
• REES acquisitions expenditure
• additions and subtractions for desiderata list
• any forthcoming transfers in prospect plus requests for changes to retention or transfer commitments
• any intended action on REES serials
• any changes to desiderata list.