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Peer reviewedMosher, Paul H.; Pankake, Marcia – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Presents guide intended to aid librarians who are responsible for planning coordinated and cooperative collection development arrangements between libraries and suggests possible contexts, goals, methods, organization, effects, and processes to be investigated while establishing such programs. Benefits, problems, models, preconditions, and…
Descriptors: Consortia, Library Acquisition, Library Cooperation, Library Materials
Peer reviewedWalters, Edward M. – Journal of Library Administration, 1987
Identifies five institutional forms of library consortia, one of which is local consortia or proximal networks, and discusses issues that apply to local library consortia. Highlights include redefinition of the library role, appropriate technology, bibliographic control, direct access, governance, and financing. (10 references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Classification, Consortia, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Peer reviewedPandian, M. Paul; Jambhekar, Ashok; Karisiddappa, C. R. – Electronic Library, 2002
Provides a framework for the design and development of an intranet model based on a consortia approach by the Indian Institutes of Management (IIM) digital library system that will facilitate information access and use by providing a single Web-enabled window to users to their own resources and to sources in other participating institutions.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consortia, Electronic Libraries, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedHansen, Carol – Library Trends, 2001
Describes the history and recent developments in the Internet Navigator Online Course that was developed by the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC) to teach information literacy competencies for online and distance learning students. Highlights include the UALC as a model for academic library cooperation; and administration and funding.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Consortia, Distance Education, Educational Administration
Ison, Jan – Illinois Libraries, 1994
Discussion of resource sharing and interlibrary loans in Illinois libraries focuses on patron-initiated interlibrary loans. The implementation of a patron-initiated service in the Lincoln Trail Libraries System Automation Consortium is described; results are discussed; and a shift in lending and borrowing patterns is examined. (LRW)
Descriptors: Consortia, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Peer reviewedSchwartz, Charles A. – Resource Sharing and Information Networks, 1992
Examines the combined self-interest model used in cooperative collection development discussions in light of social science models of a loosely coupled system. Topics addressed include a history of cooperative collection development; the Research Libraries Group (RLG) Conspectus; and the OCLC/AMIGOS Collection Analysis CD. (27 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Consortia, Higher Education, Library Collection Development
Peer reviewedAllen, Barbara McFadden; Hirshon, Arnold – Information Technology and Libraries, 1998
Discusses academic library consortia, examines types of consortia, and presents three case histories (OhioLINK, PALCI and CIC). Highlights include economic competition; changes in information access and delivery; growth of information technology; quality improvement; and future strategies, including pricing models for electronic information,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Competition, Consortia
Machovec, George S. – Online Libraries and Microcomputers, 1996
Focus among library consortia is shifting from integrated library systems to digital library projects, resource sharing, collective database licensing, multivendors, and document delivery. This article presents a draft of a strategic plan for Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries consortia; it includes discussion of CARL's mission, vision, and…
Descriptors: Consortia, Databases, Document Delivery, Electronic Libraries
Kingma, Bruce R. – Proceedings of the ASIS Annual Meeting, 1994
Presents an economic model to analyze the cost efficiency of access to journal articles via three alternatives: journal subscriptions, consortium membership, and commercial document delivery. Results show cost efficiency is based on the value of future journal use, costs of delivery and subscriptions, and the value of time to patrons. (Author/LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consortia, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Boston Library Consortium, MA. – 1982
This report describes a 1980/81 project concerned with the formulation and validation of a model for determining whether cancellation and/or consolidation of serial subscriptions and holdings should be recommended to maximize the cost-effective use of combined collections and staff resources in the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). The publication…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Check Lists, Consortia, Feasibility Studies
