ABSTRACT
The CARM (Caval Archive and Research Materials) Centre was developed in the nineteen-nineties by Caval, a not-for-profit cooperative owned by a group of university libraries in Victoria, Australia. The Centre was developed as a shared last copy repository for low-use published materials and, as it filled, a market assessment of demand was commissioned. This article describes how a new business model was developed and implemented for the construction of Stage 2 (CARM2). It also outlines lessons learned from the management of the original facility, ongoing issues associated with ownership and governance and trends away from the shared collection model.
