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Title: WHAT IS RESOURCE SHARING


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WHAT IS RESOURCE SHARING?
  • When two or more libraries agree to share
    something.

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RESOURCES INCLUDE
  • collections of materials
  • personnel
  • bibliographic records
  • special equipment
  • public goodwill

3
RESOURCES INCLUDE
  • political influence
  • future plans
  • efficient procedures
  • physical facilities

4
SCOPE OF RESOURCE SHARING POTENTIAL
  • circulation
  • reference
  • technical services
  • selection
  • acquisitions
  • organization

5
  • Most suitable functions for resource sharing
    include those which
  • are least subject to local variation
  • use communications and computer resources most
    efficiently
  • maximize the use of shared data

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CONSORTIUM
  • Any association for a common end.

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COOPERATIVE
  • A structure in which libraries cross
    jurisdictional, institutional, and often
    political boundaries to join in a common
    enterprise.

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NETWORK
  • an organization of member libraries that have
    joined together to facilitate access to a
    bibliographic utility and to develop mutually
    beneficial services and products.
  • (Susan K. Martin, Bowker annual 1980, p. 80)

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They provide one or more of the following
services
  • support telecommunications
  • develop bibliographic databases
  • support delivery systems
  • achieve cheaper online group rates
  • train librarians

10
They provide one or more of the following
services
  • convene user groups
  • develop cooperative collection plans
  • operate processing centers
  • develop integrated circulation systems

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Networks are
  • supported by payment for services
  • directed by full time staff
  • controlled by an independent governing body
  • built around a cooperatively maintained database
  • linked online by telecommunication system

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To join a network, a library must
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To join a network, a library must
First, survey its holdings (through collection
assessment or evaluation)
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Then, determine collection use, (Through
collection use studies)
15
examine policies, (Have and use collection
development, etc., policies)
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and then, determine what type of resource sharing
cooperative to join.
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and then, determine what type of resource sharing
cooperative to join.
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and then, determine what type of resource sharing
cooperative to join.
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and then, determine what type of resource sharing
cooperative to join.
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and then, determine what type of resource sharing
cooperative to join.
21
Barriers include local self-sufficiency technolog
ical sufficiency psychological barriers experience
barriers traditional/historical
barriers physical/geographical barriers legal/poli
tical barriers
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To assure success do not think of it as
supplementary or something-for-nothing spend
time working out operational details the system
should cause major operational changes and, have
an independent agency handle funding and
operation.
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Some types of libraries are still not well served
by networks school libraries, small public
libraries, and certain special libraries.
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In a recent article, Steele says that U.S.
libraries must move beyond a Fortress America
mentality to challenge multinational corporate
control of information. Colin Steele, Forging
global information equity. Library Journal
125(12) 46-47, July 2000 While he is writing
from an academic library viewpoint, does this
concept have any impact on resource sharing for
all types of libraries?
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Your turn!
  • What do you see are the most important aspects of
    resource sharing for collection management?
  • What are the critical issues here?
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