In today's economic climate, many libraries are work cooperatively
and sharing facilities, staffs, and resources. This book gives you
practical examples of how to make joint use a POSITIVE reality! The
first book of its kind, Joint-Use Libraries presents nine examples
of situations in which libraries of different types share a
building. In some cases one library takes the lead and staffs the
operation. In other cases, two or more staffs inhabit the same
building and divide the work. This essential book illustrates the
variety of ways that public libraries, community college libraries,
and college/university libraries have found to stretch their
resources and better serve their users. This book explores
team-based strategies for joint-use libraries and shows how various
libraries have addressed questions such as, Which library's online
catalog will be used? How will costs for maintenance and utilities
be shared? and Will there be one integrated staff, or separate
staffs inhabiting the same building? The libraries described range
from a very small library shared by Front Range Community College
and the City of Fort Collins, Colorado, to a mammoth new joint
library now being built in San Jose, California. In Joint-Use
Libraries, you'll encounter fascinating case studies of successful
joint use that examine: school libraries that double as public
library facilities a county-wide public library system in South
Florida that has created partnerships with university, community
college, public, and private school libraries a joint library
located on a Florida community college campus but also serving a
major university another joint library on a Washington state campus
that is shared by both a university and a community collegewith the
university acting as primary provider of library services by
contract with the community college a three-way library in which a
community college, a university, and a public library provide their
own staffing, collections, and other resources to offer services in
a small community where none of them alone could afford a
first-rate facility a complex situation in which St. Petersburg
College and the City of Seminole, Florida are building a joint-use
facility which will serve not only the city and the college, but
will also serve the students of 14 other institutions of higher
education a joint-use library where one institution is clearly the
senior partner, but a largely new, integrated staff has been hired
to minimize resistance to the new joint mission and to serve all
users equally and more!
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