Curl, Margo Warner, "Cooperative Collection Development in a Consortium of College Libraries: the CONSORT Experience," Against the Grain 14, no. 6 (December 2002-January 2003):52-54, and "Collection Assessment of the CONSORT Collections," 54-57.

Curl, Margo Warner, "Yours? Mine? Ours? Duplication in Consortia", Charleston Conference Proceedings 2002 (Rosann Bazirjian and Vicky Speck, eds.), Westport CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2003, p.156-158.

Curl, Margo Warner and Michael Zeoli (YBP Library Services), "Developing a Consortial Shared Approval Plan for Monographs," Collection Building 23, no. 3 (2004): 122-128.

Prophet, Mary (Denison), Megan Fitch (Kenyon), and Joy He (Ohio Wesleyan, "Ohio5 Government Documents," Against the Grain 16, no. 3 (June 2004): 38-40.

Reilly, Bernard F. Reilly, Jr.,"The Case for Belts and Suspenders: Risk Management Aspects of Cooperative Collection Development," Co-published simultaneously in Collection Management 28, no. 1/2 (2003):121-134; and: The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development (Edward Shreeves, ed.). New York : Haworth Information Press, 2003, 121-134. The CONSORT project was cited as a model of formal cooperation

Reilly, Bernard F., Jr., Developing Print Repositories: Models for Shared Preservation and Access. Center for Research Libraries, June 2003. See at http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub117abst.html. The CONStor storage facility was included in the study.

Shelton, Cynthia, "Best Practices in Cooperative Collection Development: a Report Prepared by the Center for Research Libraries Working Group on Best Practices in Cooperative Collection Development." Co-published simultaneously in Collection Management 28, no. 3 (2003):191-222; and: The New Dynamics and Economics of Cooperative Collection Development (Edward Shreeves, ed.). New York : Haworth Information Press, 2003, 191-222. The CONSORT project was one selected as a "best practice" model.

Major presentations

Curl, Margo Warner, Karen Greever (Kenyon), Mark Gooch (Wooster), and Earl Griffith (Dension) were co-presenters at a pre-conference workshop, "Collaborative Collection Management for Libraries in Consortia," at The Association of College and Research Libraries biennial conference, April 10, 2003, Charlotte, North Carolina. The workshop also included presenters from the Tri-Colleges Consortium of Pennsylvania, and the Five Colleges of Massachusetts.

Curl, Margo Warner and Michael Zeoli (YBP Library Services) presented, "Developing and Implementing a Shared Approval Plan for a Consortium of Libraries: a Model for the Cooperative Collection Development of Monographs," at the 23d Annual Charleston Conference on Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition, November 6, 2003.