[Themaintainers] Fwd: New OCLC Research Report - Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections

[Lauren McDaniel]

Hello Maintainers!

I posted this to the info-maintainers
<https://themaintainers.org/info-mc-about-us> group, but it may be of
interest/use to the rest of us:

March 2021 publication from OCLC Research – *Total Cost of Stewardship:
Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections*. Read
the report and related research from the field and download the free tool
suite here: *https://oc.lc/total-stewardship-report*
<https://oc.lc/total-stewardship-report>

Developed by the OCLC Research Library Partnership’s Collection Building
and Operational Impacts Working Group
<https://www.oclc.org/research/partnership/working-groups/collection-building-operational-impacts.html>,
the report responds to the ongoing challenge of descriptive backlogs in
archives and special collections by connecting collection development
decisions with stewardship responsibilities. It presents the Total Cost of
Stewardship Framework, a holistic approach to understanding the resources
needed to responsibly acquire and steward archives and special
collections, value and make visible the expertise and labor of all involved
in the stewardship lifecycle, and help colleagues across roles to
communicate and make informed decisions together.

The collection of materials published includes:

   - An OCLC Research report: *Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible
   Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections*
   - An annotated bibliography of related resources
   - The Total Cost of Stewardship Tool Suite, comprising of a set of
   Communication Tools, Cost Estimation Tools, and a Manual to guide end users
   in implementing the Tool Suite.

*Download the report and resources to learn more: *
*https://oc.lc/total-stewardship-report*
<https://oc.lc/total-stewardship-report>

Onward and upward!
Lauren

Lauren McDaniel (she/her)
Special Collections Archivist (temporary)
Getty Research Institute
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