The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries is a consortium of 22 university libraries in western Canada. Planning for a regional shared print archive has included the formation of several task groups, the engagement of a project consultant, and local development of a holdings registry tool. The original impetus for the project was to clear maximum shelf space at member libraries quickly. The planning challenge that has emerged is to design a project that meets this short term regional need for re-purposed space in member libraries, while building in scalability to address a broader preservation mandate, and allows linking to related initiatives in other jurisdictions.

This article presents the results of a survey of Canadian university libraries that investigated whether libraries have been able to stay abreast of the many changes that affect their access to paid-for e-content. This report emphasizes the publishers' obligations to notify licensees when ownership changes hands and libraries' need to actively pursue licensed content in ownership transfers. The meaning and application of "perpetual access" clauses in e-journal licenses under change-of-ownership situations is also discussed.

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It has been well documented that the emergence of a stable body of electronic text is transforming the utility of legacy print collections in academic libraries (Schonfeld, 2009 ; Kieft, 2012 ; ARL, 2012). This is certainly true for journals and increasingly appears to be affecting the management of monograph collections as well (Lavoie and Schonfeld, 2006; Demas, 2012). Combined with pressure for the repurposing of space in university libraries, and the acceptance of online reading by researchers, this shift is pushing collection managers toward consideration of historical print collections on an entirely new scale (Lavoie et al., 2012; Malpas, 2011). As the authors of the ARL statement on 21 st Century collections put it, "Twenty-first-century collection management will therefore require increased collaboration within and among institutions...A multi-institutional approach is the only one that now makes sense" (Association of Research Libraries, 2012, p. 1). The Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries (COPPUL) is a consortium of 23 university libraries in the four western provinces of Canada. Spanning 1.1 million square miles yet with only 10 million residents, the region's vast geography has been a driver for cooperation. In 2011, after several years of planning and study, 19 member libraries responded by forming the Shared Print Archive Network (SPAN) in our region. The origins of this program have been documented elsewhere (Bird and Ashoughian, 2012; Wong, 2012). This paper focuses on how SPAN fits into larger national and global frameworks of related activity. Looking at current developments in Canada and the US, as well as the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Hong Kong, we explore the possibility of increased international exchange among such programs in various jurisdictions. Environmental Scan-Canada & North America There are now many shared print programs in the US that illustrate a variety of approaches. The Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST) is among the most mature of these, and encompasses 109 libraries in 18 US states, many participating through regional consortia.

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