TY - BOOK ID - 48298435 TI - Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services : Perspectives on Collaboration Within and Across Libraries AU - Owusu, Erica A. AU - Aldana, Lynda L. AU - Moskal, Robin Barnard AU - Sipe, Vicki AU - Tench, Rob AU - Thomas, Charles Franklin AU - Flinchbaugh, Michelle PY - 2019 SN - 1557538476 1612495788 1612495796 PB - West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Academic libraries KW - College libraries KW - Libraries, University and college KW - University libraries KW - Libraries KW - Libraries and colleges KW - Public libraries KW - Acquisitions KW - Services to colleges and universities KW - Library cooperation KW - Cooperation, Library KW - Interlibrary cooperation KW - Interlibrary resource sharing KW - Library consortia KW - Library coordination KW - Library resource sharing KW - Resource sharing, Library KW - Institutional cooperation KW - Cooperative cataloging KW - Intellectual cooperation KW - International librarianship KW - Library storage centers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48298435 AB - "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"-- ER -