Library Consortia and the CIC: Leveraging Scale for Collaborative Success

Armstrong, Kimberly L.; Teper, Thomas H.

doi:10.1080/00987913.2017.1284493

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“…Some authors claim subscribing to individual resources can be more advantageous for the consortium as the collection can be centred on the user rather than in the publisher’s interest (Pedersen et al, 2014). This form of contract can be detrimental to the consortium, as in the case of a group of libraries with homogeneous interests, they will not benefit from the diversity of titles supplied (Ahmed and Suleiman, 2013; Armstrong and Teper, 2017).…”

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Library as a consortium perspective: A systematic literature review

Pereira

Franco

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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Consortia are a form of association between organizations seeking to reach a common objective. This study aims to systematize discussion in the area of library consortia and relate it to aspects of information management. To this end, the Web of Science databases was used to identify the literature to be analysed, resorting to Bibliometrix software. The results show a tendency in the literature to discuss themes such as open access contract management. The study concludes on an evolution of themes setting out from shared resources and directs future research towards identifying questions of access to and ownership of information resources.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

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Library as a consortium perspective: A systematic literature review

Pereira

Franco

2020

Journal of Librarianship and Information Science

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“…There are several examples of library consortia that enable collaborative efforts to make available and accessible catalogs, websites, and activities from a single platform. 113 These include the Online…”

Section: Discussion and Analysismentioning

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Library Management Practices in the Libraries of Pakistan

Ullah

Khusro

Ullah

2022

ITAL

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Library and information science has been at an infant stage in Pakistan, primarily in resource management, description, discovery, and access. The reasons are many, including the lack of interest and use of modern tools, techniques, and best practices by librarians in Pakistan. Finding a solution to these challenges requires a comprehensive study that identifies the current state of libraries in Pakistan. This paper fills this gap in the literature by reviewing the relevant literature published between 2015 and 2021 and selected through a rigorous search and selection methodology. It also analyzes the websites of 82 libraries in Pakistan through a theoretical framework based on various aspects. The findings of this study include: Libraries in Pakistan need a transition from traditional and limited solutions to more advanced information and communication technology (ICT)-enabled, user-friendly, and state-of-the-art systems to produce dynamic, consumable, and sharable knowledge space. They must adopt social semantic cataloging to bring all the stakeholders on a single platform. A libraries consortium should be developed to link users to local, multilingual, and multicultural collections for improved knowledge production, recording, sharing, acquisition, and dissemination. These findings benefit Pakistani libraries, librarians, information science professionals, and researchers in other developing countries. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study of its kind providing insights into the current state of libraries in Pakistan through the study of their websites using a rigorous theoretical framework and in the light of the latest relevant literature.

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“…The literature documents the history of collaboration via consortia in higher education (Bostick, 2001;Armstrong and Teper, 2017). Early consortia collaborations focused on reducing costs for member libraries, but typologies of collaboration extend from these "buying clubs" into several features shared, such as shared ILS', shared discovery systems, digital repositories, and print archives (Machovec, 2013).…”

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Diverse mobile users: the development of library experts

Hahn

2019

RSR

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to undertake a formative evaluation of growth over time that would demonstrate diverse library users’ development as they interact with mobile digital library services. Design/methodology/approach This paper incorporated a server log analysis to evaluate first, the location of users. To study the nature of diverse user development, users from unique locations were identified and tracked over several years. The type of growth that this paper analyzes is the development of a library user from the beginning stages of use into one who is more experienced. For the purposes of this paper, the authors define library experts as experienced library users. These are users who have come back to the library over multiple sessions of learning and branched out into multiple areas of library functionality and services. Findings The findings of modular mobile use over time suggest that, while over half of users only utilized one module, 39 per cent of all users accessed more than one module. This formative approach to assessing student library engagement suggests alternative metrics for assessing outreach and distance learning. Originality/value The underlying departure point for this study is that formative models may introduce descriptive data valuable to the learning analytics toolkit. The library research literature on learning analytics, and perhaps library service offerings that support learning, may gain additional value by attending to students’ formative development as they interact with library resources. Describing the way in which mobile app users develop can yield insights about learning over time, both on campus and at a distance.

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Library Consortia and the CIC: Leveraging Scale for Collaborative Success

Cited by 5 publications

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Library as a consortium perspective: A systematic literature review

Library as a consortium perspective: A systematic literature review

Library Management Practices in the Libraries of Pakistan

Diverse mobile users: the development of library experts

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