Library Consortia. Practical Guide for Library Managers

✍ Scribed by Aditya Tripathi, Jawahar Lal

Publisher: Chandos Publishing
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Leaves: 133
Series: Chandos Information Professional Series
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Libraries are burdened with increased demand for resources and services and inflating expectations against shrinking or stagnant budgets. An individual library cannot cope with the situation. Hence, libraries form alliances for cooperation and sharing. Emerging changes in the publishing industry are phenomenal and have forced libraries to move toward a strategic partnership called library consortia. Information technology has played a vital role in developing such partnerships. Publishers offer packages of resources to library consortia benefitting all member libraries. Library consortia protect the interests of individual members while considering the business interests of publishers. This book is a start-up guide to libraries and librarians desiring to form library consortia. It covers the various facets of library consortia and corresponding activities. The chapters are presented with different consortia models, formations, business negotiations and various licensing schemes.

presents a detailed guide and criteria for establishing library consortia
discusses consortia models in detail, with examples
includes examples of staff patterns and governance issues of library consortia
provides examples of different licensing and pricing models

✦ Table of Contents

Content:
Series Page,Front Matter,Copyright,About the Authors,Preface,List of AbbreviationsEntitled to full textChapter 1 - Library Consortia: An Overview, Pages 1-12
Chapter 2 - Origin and Development of Library Consortia, Pages 13-25
Chapter 3 - Library Consortia: Components and Benefits, Pages 27-46
Chapter 4 - Library Consortia Models, Pages 47-59
Chapter 5 - Management of Library Consortia: Organization and Finance, Pages 61-75
Chapter 6 - Management of Library Consortia: Pricing and Licensing, Pages 77-101
Chapter 7 - Management of Library Consortia: Challenges, Pages 103-108
References, Pages 109-122
Index, Pages 123-126

✦ Subjects

Library cooperation;LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES;Library & Information Science;General

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