Full Description
Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiativesat regional, statewide, and international levels!
This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and the Caribbean.
From the editors: Cooperation used to mean primarily cataloging via OCLC, interlibrary loan, and perhaps mutual borrowing privileges, but economics and technology are combining to broaden the playing field considerably. This collection reflects this diversity.
Part one of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries highlights cooperation in regional and statewide activity. You'll learn about:
Metro, a multitype cooperative designed to coordinate the implementation of virtual reference among libraries in New York City
cooperation between remote, rural, and isolated libraries in the Northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain West regions, including the creation of the Online Dakota Information Network (ODIN) and similar organizations
a Virtual Library of Virginia project in which the highly specialized skills of librarians were used to enhance vendor-supplied MARC records for a much more accessible full-text database
the efforts of each university within the state system in Florida to contribute digitized versions of rare and specialized Floridiana to a joint electronic collection which is available to everyone in the state
a centrally funded project to support the information literacy efforts of librarians at each campus of the California State University System and make all of them available at the other campus libraries
a joint collection development project within the state universities and community and technical colleges of Minnesota the successful lobbying effort which brought them a $3 million annual supplement to cooperatively redress past underfunding for collections
the history of resource sharing in Louisiana, Illinois, and Texasdetailed and extensive analyses
Part two of Cooperative Efforts of Libraries presents a sampling of the wide variety of cooperative efforts that make libraries so unusual among institutions and librarians so unusual among professionals. In this section, the President of the Center for Research Libraries discusses the increasing cost and physical constraints that make it difficult for hundreds of libraries to store and preserve print copies of the same research materials. This section also examines:
a collaborative digital reference project among three small liberal arts college libraries in New England
the history of cooperative collection development among three Pennsylvania college libraries
the University of Kansas Libraries' efforts to establish cooperative education programs to microfilm brittle books and create microform masters of embrittled volumeswhich are then made available for sale to other libraries
an American university's offer of interlibrary access to the students and faculty of an Armenian university where resources are severely limited
the challenges of providing interlibrary loan in Latin America
the planning of an international summit cosponsored by the Southeast Florida Library Information Network, a regional multitype cooperative in South Florida, and IFLA, designed to lay the groundwork for further cooperative efforts between U.S. libraries and libraries in Latin America and the Caribbean
Contents
Part I
Regional and State-Wide Cooperation
Introduction
METRO and OCLC: Implementing Virtual Reference in a Multi-Type Consortium
High, Wide and Cooperative: Academic Library Cooperation in the Rocky Mountain West and Northern Great Plains
A Consortial Approach to Cooperative Cataloging and Authority Control: The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) Experience
A PALMM Grows in Florida: The Publication of Archival, Library and Museum Materials Program
Cooperating for Success: The Information Competence Initiative of the California State University
Customizing a Legislative Mandate: Cooperative Collection Development in Minnesota
Resource Sharing in Louisiana
Illinois Academic Librarians: Catalysts for Cooperation
Library Resource Sharing: A Texas Size Challenge
Part II
Variety of Cooperative Ventures
Introduction
New Prospects for the Cooperative Preservation of Print Materials
The Harvard Model and the Rise of Shared Storage Facilities
Collaborative Digital Reference in Small Academic Liberal Arts College Libraries, Connecticut College, Smith College and Wesleyan University 2001-2002
Should Three College Collections Add Up to One Research Collection? A Study of Collaborative Collection Development at Three Undergraduate Colleges
Cooperative Efforts in Library Preservation: A Model for the Future
Intercontinental Document Delivery: The AUA/FAU Experience
Interlibrary Loan: Integral Component of Global Resource Sharing
Planning for International Library Exchange and Cooperation: The IFLA/SEFLIN International Summit on Library Cooperation in the Americas
Index
Reference Notes Included
