What Collaboration Means to Me: From Coordination to Collective Action: CCLP and Cyclops as Infrastructure for Collaborative Collection Stewardship

Authors

• Boaz Nadav-Manes, Lehigh UniversityFollow

Abstract

Academic libraries face growing pressure to manage complex collections under significant resource constraints. While consortial collaboration has long been recognized as a strategic response, existing models remain limited, often failing to influence the full collections lifecycle. This article examines how the Collaborative Collections Lifecycle Project (CCLP) and the Cyclops platform together offer a new model for moving beyond coordination toward genuine collective action in collection stewardship. CCLP provides a community-governed framework structuring collaboration from selection and acquisition through preservation and deaccessioning, while Cyclops complements it with an open, analytics-driven infrastructure that aggregates data across institutions, enabling cross-institutional analysis and translating shared insights into operational workflows. Project Lighthouse, led by Lehigh University in partnership with PALCI, demonstrates how these elements can be integrated in practice. Together, CCLP and Cyclops address longstanding barriers to deep collaboration while raising important questions about sustainability, equity, and shared ownership in the scholarly ecosystem.

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Recommended Citation

Nadav-Manes, Boaz (2026) "What Collaboration Means to Me: From Coordination to Collective Action: CCLP and Cyclops as Infrastructure for Collaborative Collection Stewardship," Collaborative Librarianship: Vol. 16: Iss. 1, Article 2.
Available at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/collaborativelibrarianship/vol16/iss1/2