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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777390203321

Titolo

Collaboration, co-operation and consortia [[electronic resource] /] / editor, Patricia Layzell Ward

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bradford, England, : Emerald Group Publishing, c2002

ISBN

1-280-47992-2

9786610479924

1-84544-700-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (87 p.)

Collana

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

Altri autori (Persone)

Layzell WardPatricia

Disciplina

021.64

Soggetti

Library administration

Library science

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.