This report explores regional-scale cooperative print strategies in the context of a local collection (OSU - Ohio State University Libraries) participating in a regionally-scaled, consortial (CIC - Committee on Institutional Cooperation), shared print initiative. The goal is to provide an empirically-based assessment of the potential for a distributed cooperative strategy for print books, based on the principle of a shared, centrally-managed core, and a network of local collections. The report offers a statistical analyses of the OSU print book collection and the CIC collective print book resource and includes statistical information about interlibrary-loan (ILL) traffic patterns.