The truth is in the details, lessons in inter‐university library collaboration

Abstract

Focuses on how successful collaboration has been achieved between three Canadian university libraries. The management recognised that there were cultural differences between the three library systems, and encouraged an open examination of values, personal systems and attitudes in order to prepare for the effects of change. Discusses the planning process and the lessons learned from the TriUniversity Group of Libraries collaboration.

Three Libraries, Three Weeding Projects: Collaborative Weeding Projects Within a Shared Print Repository

“…The TUG Joint Storage Annex was the first formal cooperative venture of its kind in Canada. Exhaustive surveys of library collaborative storage efforts have been written by O'Connor et al in 208 S. Gillies and C. Stephenson 2002, Reilly in 2003, and Payne in 2007and updated with an international focus by O'Connor in 2009(O'Connor and Jilovsky 2009. Burgeoning physical collections, lack of new space on which to build, a desire to realize efficiencies in library budgets, and a growing realization of the need to collectively shoulder the burden of preserving the published scholarly record have all been cited as reasons for the growth in the number of such facilities (O'Connor et al 2002;Reilly 2003).…”

“…Collaborative storage facilities have been around since the late 1970s, beginning with the large joint storage efforts of the University of California's Southern and Northern Regional Library Facilities (Reilly 2003). These early pioneering efforts were soon joined by initiatives in the Ohio State system, the Five-College Library Depository, the Washington Research Libraries Consortium, and outside the U.S. in the United Kingdom (CASS: Collaborative Academic Store for Scotland), Finland (National Repository Library of Finland), and Australia (CARM Centre).…”

The potential of inter‐state collaboration for Omani academic libraries

“…In some cases, these terms are used as coextensive terms to describe the informal or formal relationships between organizations (Stella, 1993; Caidi, 2003; Rodriguez, 2003). Other researchers clarify the distinctions among the three terms in order to use the term that they believe to be the most consistent with the meaning and purpose of their investigation (Winer and Ray, 1994; Shepherd et al , 1999; Parkinson, 2006).…”

Trends in library management

“…Planning has not only to relate to the parent organisation in which the service is based, but also to consider the needs of collaborating services. The chief becomes a mediator between his or her own and other services; services which may not share the same corporate culture (Shepherd et al, 1999).…”