Cathy Martyniak
Director for Preservation
Library of Congress
Matt Martin
Chief, Collections Management Division
Library of Congress
Barak Zahavy
Assistant Director IT
ReCAP / Princeton University
Gary Burcheski
Manager, Library Collection Services
Yale University
When a key inventory management software vendor shut down without notice, our community chose collective action. The Library of Congress, Yale University, ReCAP, and others turned joint conversations into FETCH, an open source (CC0) inventory system that the Library of Congress developed and has used in production since 2025, with 10 million items migrated. Presenters will share how they built trust and processes for shared decisions across institutions. They will also discuss how partner institutions contributed throughout the development process; how they foster sustainability; and what the experience suggests about resilience and community.
https://itav.lyrasis.org/itav-community-case-study-fetch/
https://github.com/search?q=org%3ALibraryOfCongress+fetch&type=repositories
