The OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) has just released a really useful report titled "Total Costs of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections", an issue taking on ever-greater importance, particularly (though far from exclusively) in the context of digital materials. See
Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections
There's also a post on their Hanging Together blog about the report at
https://hangingtogether.org/?p=8986Clifford Lynch Director, CNI
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