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Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services - Perspectives on Collaboration Within and Across Libraries (Paperback)
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Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services - Perspectives on Collaboration Within and Across Libraries (Paperback)
Series: Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
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This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of
service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by
collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number
of libraries work together, usually in an existing library
consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each
individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions
collaborates to support other library functions. For the library
acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library
director, awareness of different options for effective consortial
and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of
staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those
options in the form of case studies as well as useful analysis of
the benefits and challenges of each. By supporting each other's
acquisitions services in a consortium, libraries leverage size to
get better prices, and share systems and expertise to maximize
resources while minimizing costs. Within libraries, the
acquisitions function can be combined with other library functions
in a unit with more than one purpose, or acquisitions can develop a
close working relationship with another unit to support their work.
This book surveys practice at different libraries and at different
library consortia, and presents a detailed description and analysis
of a variety of practices for how acquisitions units support each
other within a consortium, and how they work with other library
units, specifically collection management, cataloging, interlibrary
loan, and the digital repository, in the form of case studies. A
final section of the book covers fundamentals of collaboration.
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