A Tale of Two Libraries: A Merger and Its Challenges. A Case Study

Munster, Irene

doi:10.1080/01930826.2016.1222119

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“…The school will usually provide the building. This saves on capital costs for one partner, and flowing on from that, on building maintenance costs (Munster, 2017). Schools in rural areas are easily accessible to the local community in terms of driving and parking (Imhoff, 2001).…”

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Evaluating the benefits of joint-use libraries

Calvert

2019

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The project seeks ideas for evaluating joint-use libraries; here, libraries jointly administered by a public library and a school. ‘Collaborative advantage’ occurs when each partner brings something the other does not have. The evidence suggests that schools think the partnership helps them to provide a library at reduced cost while the public libraries consider it a way to extend their community reach. Do these different aims make it difficult to produce formative evaluation methods? The project discovered, however, that the most important benefit for both parties was better integration between the school and the community.

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Evaluating the benefits of joint-use libraries

Calvert

2019

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Creating value for all: joint academic library in the service of five universities

Rintamäki

Flemming

Lehto

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to describe and analyse practices of a joint university library as a model of cooperation between universities. Design/methodology/approach The paper is a descriptive case study on the benefits and challenges of collaboration based on experiences of one joint library. Findings In 2000–2010s, Finnish universities and universities of applied sciences have undergone structural changes becoming public corporations. The ideal of the government policy is an effective, productive, entrepreneurial university with lean infrastructure and support services. One solution in pursuing cost-effectiveness and efficiency are joint regional libraries. In Vaasa, the five university units share a joint academic library, Tritonia. Tritonia offers library and information services that consist of print and digital information resources, researchers’ support services, pedagogical and technical support for digital education, and learning commons for its five universities. Originality/value The paper describes service production and its development and presents an existing model for cooperation in joint libraries of several academic institutions that are becoming more common.

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A Tale of Two Libraries: A Merger and Its Challenges. A Case Study

Cited by 2 publications

References 4 publications

Evaluating the benefits of joint-use libraries

Evaluating the benefits of joint-use libraries

Creating value for all: joint academic library in the service of five universities

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