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Library cooperation. --- Cooperation, Library --- Interlibrary cooperation --- Interlibrary resource sharing --- Library consortia --- Library coordination --- Library resource sharing --- Resource sharing, Library --- Institutional cooperation --- Cooperative cataloging --- Intellectual cooperation --- International librarianship --- Library storage centers

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Economic structure --- Higher education --- Labour economics --- Business and education --- University cooperation --- Business and education. --- University cooperation. --- College cooperation --- Inter-college cooperation --- Universities and colleges --- Corporations and education --- Industry and education --- Education and business --- Education and corporations --- Education and industry --- Cooperation --- Institutional cooperation --- Education --- Worksite schools --- Administration --- Higher education institutions --- Cooperation with industries

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Volume 36 of Advances in Librarianship seeks to provide a comprehensive broad review of the factors that lead to mergers and other alliances, the methods used to ensure effective and successful collaborations. While corporate mergers make headlines, similar efforts in library and information science are less vociferously touted. They are occurring however amongst libraries, among LIS degree programs, and enterprises such as networks and consortia They are occurring as governments around the world mandate consolidation of operations amongst agencies under their purview in order to reduce or curtail expenditures. The chapters include original research, case studies, literature reviews and conceptual papers on the following topics: Structural and operational mergers in the US, and also in Finland where higher education has undergone significant change in the past 10 years resulting in merged and joint library operations; A review of successful and unsuccessful mergers in the corporate sector which provide lessons that benefit the nonprofit sector; Experiences in higher education in library and information science programs through analysis of collaboration both in the US and in Europe and the Middle east by multi-university effort that adhere to standards of the Bologna Process; The collapse and mergers of former OCLC regional networks in the US; ; The fiscal results and savings from network acquisition of electronic resources and databases; the impact of efforts such as the Council on Library and Information Resources to nurture collaboration amongst libraries and various types of agencies; The results of radical fiscal constraints in Greece which led to contraction and collaboration among university libraries there.

Library cooperation. --- International librarianship. --- Librarianship, International --- Cooperation, Library --- Interlibrary cooperation --- Interlibrary resource sharing --- Library consortia --- Library coordination --- Library resource sharing --- Resource sharing, Library --- International cooperation --- Library science --- Comparative librarianship --- Library cooperation --- Institutional cooperation --- Cooperative cataloging --- Intellectual cooperation --- International librarianship --- Library storage centers --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Library & information services. --- Literacy strategies. --- Information science --- Library & Information Science --- General. --- Literacy. --- Libraries --- Mergers.

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"This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions collaborates to support other library functions. For the library acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library director, awareness of different options for effective consortial and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those options in the form of case studies, as well as useful analysis of the benefits and challenges of each. By supporting each other's acquisitions services in a consortium, libraries leverage size to get better prices, and share systems and expertise to maximize resources while minimizing costs. Within libraries, the library acquisitions function can be combined with other library functions in a unit with more than one purpose, or acquisitions can develop a close working relationship with another unit to support their work. This book surveys practice at different libraries and at different library consortia, and presents a detailed description and analysis of a variety of practices for how acquisitions units support each other within a consortium, and how they work with other library units, specifically collection management, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and the digital repository, in the form of case studies. A final sections of the book covers fundamentals of collaboration"--

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"The Role of Information Professionals in the Knowledge Economy: Skills, Profile, and a Model for Supporting Scientific Production and Communication presents tools, products, and resources that are necessary for institutions to acquire and develop a scientific culture; a key area that defines their international competitiveness. It redefines the role and skills of information professionals that institutions need to support and manage their scientific production and communication through a model provided. This book is ideal for information professionals and students who are interested in scholarly communication as avenues of endeavor. Researchers, professors, and decision makers involved in knowledge generation processes will also find useful insights to advance in this area. Key points: Promotes the idea that an information professional is the right person to support scientific production and communication; Provides guidance on how to develop a scientific culture in an institution; Identifies the competencies needed by information professionals with a stake in scientific production and communication; Redefines the profile of such information professionals and identifies this new skillset as a job opportunity." -- Back cover.

Science and technology libraries. --- Knowledge economy. --- Economy of knowledge --- Information economy --- KBE (Knowledge-based economy) --- Knowledge-based economy --- Economics --- Sci-tech libraries --- Science libraries --- Scientific libraries --- Technical libraries --- Technology libraries --- Special libraries --- Information technology. --- Knowledge management. --- Information society --- Institutional cooperation. --- Economic aspects.