Collaborative collection development: a Canadian‐Indonesian initiative

The purpose of this paper is to describe the collaborative collection development initiative undertaken by the Indonesia Social Equity Project.

The paper presents a brief history and descriptive analysis of an international collection development project.

The paper examines practical issues that arose while building the library collection as a librarian/faculty collaboration, with the added element of having been conducted within a multicultural context.

Similar case studies describing international collection development projects are rare in the literature. The article is of interest to librarians researching issues related to cross‐cultural collaboration.