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crl-24618	Lavoie, Brian; Dempsey, Lorcan; Malpas, Constance	Reflections on Collective Collections	2020	16	.pdf	application/pdf	7501	273	35	General Patterns in Collective Collections The evidence accumulated from OCLC Research’s collective collections work has been drawn from studies of collective collections scoped at a variety of scales and framed in different 986 College & Research Libraries September 2020 institutional and geographic contexts. For example, a 2012 study of the collective print book collections of the US and Canadian mega-regions found that, while all of the regional collective collections were quite diverse in terms of country of origin and language of content, the largest regional collections exhibited the highest proportions of these materials: more than 60 percent of the books in the largest regional collection (BOS-WASH), for example, were published outside the US and Canada, and nearly half were in languages other than English.37 FIGURE 5 RLUK Collective Print Book Collection: Duplication Rates Reflections on Collective Collections 993 An important corollary to the idea that collective collections build out a long tail of rela- tively rare (not widely held) and diverse materials is that the degree of uniqueness associated with a collective collection depends heavily on the scope of comparison.	cache/crl-24618.pdf	txt/crl-24618.txt