Collaboration, co-operation and consortia / editor, Patricia Layzell Ward.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Layzell Ward, Patricia.

Series:

Library management ; v.23, no. 4/5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Library administration.

Library science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (87 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bradford, England : Emerald Group Publishing, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Participation in schemes of formal co-operation between library services has been part of management strategies for nearly a century. In trying to pin down dates serendipity revealed the following statement in Libraries at Large which emerged from the US National Commission on Libraries in the late 1960's.

Contents:

Contents; Abstracts & keywords; Editorial; Managing academic and research libraries partnerships; Establishing successful partnerships with university support units; External partnerships and academic libraries; Developments in academic library consortia from the 1960's through 2000; Management issues of co-operative ventures and consortia in the USA. Part one; What's fair?; A review of consortia building among university libraries in Africa; Management issues in library networking; Management musings 7; Internet editorial; Book reviews; A note from the publisher

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-47992-2

9786610479924

1-84544-700-X

OCLC:

61357977