Good Things Come in Small Packages: Getting the Most From Shared Print Retention and Cooperative Collection Development With a Small Group of Libraries

In June 2013, the Central Iowa Collaborative Collections Initiative (CI‐CCI), inspired by a Charleston preconference on data‐driven shared print collections, was established. CI‐CCI went from being just an idea to a formal, MOU‐governed organization in just six months. It is consists of a group of five mid and small central Iowa private academic libraries. Members are Central College, Drake University, Grand View University, Grinnell College, and Simpson College.