The project aims to aid researchers by extending existing collaborative collection management work carried out within the framework of the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries (SCURL) into new areas and investigating effective models for building and sustaining a co-ordinated Scotland-wide distributed national resource. This would be conveniently accessible to researchers via the Cairns distributed catalogue, Research Collections Online (RCO), and SCURL inter-access policies, and also hospitable to accommodating further new collaborative initiatives among Scottish university and research libraries. In addition to enhancing existing online assistance to help researchers identify relevant collections, the project will also aim to provide online information and other facilities to assist library staff in jointly managing collaborative collection management processes in order to get the best out of limited national resources.