{"id":19,"date":"2011-07-31T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2011-08-01T00:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/?p=19"},"modified":"2011-08-14T23:38:06","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T06:38:06","slug":"libraries-collaborate-on-collection-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/2011\/07\/31\/libraries-collaborate-on-collection-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Libraries Collaborate on Collection Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>What kinds of projects are suited to collaboration in information organizations?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><strong> <\/strong><\/em><strong>Collaboration must be mutually beneficial to all participating.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Libraries have a lot in common with one another as they provide similar services as portals to information, have similar goals and have similar needs and challenges; therefore, it is not surprising that Libraries have had a long history of collaboration.\u00a0 Unquestionably, fulfilling user expectations and budget limitations stand out as persuasive incentives for libraries to cooperate and collaborate. \u00a0Collaboration on collection development began early in all types of libraries and has become more feasible and expanded with advances in technology. \u00a0Libraries and Librarians\u00a0continue to\u00a0embraced new\u00a0technologies that enabled them to communicate and share with each other and their users more effectively, such as social media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Libraries: Collection Development Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The early forms of library collection development collaboration began\u00a0with material and resource sharing and then developed into a system of interlibrary loaning (ILL), then catalogue sharing and consortium purchasing.\u00a0More recently, examples of collection collaboration include digitization projects and resource storage.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interlibrary loan arrangements can reduce duplication of materials and therefore extend collection budgets.<\/li>\n<li> New technology and the development of electronic library catalogues have given libraries the ability to easily share their bibliographic records.<\/li>\n<li>Purchasing consortia arrangements among libraries are sometimes used to acquire less used expensive items but primarily they have become a collaborative collection development strategy associated with electronic resource acquisitions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Just to name a few. As technology develops libraries find new ways to provide better service and cut cost to collection development budgets. Social media is providing new opportunities in this cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Social Media and Collection Development Collaboration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Social Media has the potential to take library collection development collaboration to another level. \u00a0Libraries are using social media tools to maintain two way communication with users and non-users and colleagues and vendors:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital sharing &#8230; Libraries are scanning requested items, especially historical photos and sharing them in flickr, or emailing the scan rather than sending the original. \u00a0Many image collections are being digitized and made accessible online for everyone.<\/li>\n<li>E-books &#8230; There is a shift in interlibrary loans to ebook purchasing. ILL has been a labour intensive and costly sharing process, as a result some libraries are shifting to purchasing requested material in electronic format as a less expensive alternative.<\/li>\n<li>Catalogue sharing &#8230; Bibliocommons is being adopted by many libraries as a new bibliographic records sharing opportunity. This also allows users to share collection suggestions.<\/li>\n<li> Blogs &#8230; Libraries use blogs to push information out about many things including collections such as new acquisitions. Libraries use internal blogs to share floating materials in order to keep the collections within a library system balanced. Blogs are also use to communicate with vendors.<\/li>\n<li>Communication tools &#8230; social media tools are helpful to facilitate collaborate and coordinate and negotiation with each other and vendors related to electronic resources.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The resounding push for collaborative collection development in all library types has been due to a desire to continue to provide quality service to the user community within budget restraints. \u00a0As the technologies fostering collaboration become more mainstream collaborative collection development among library organizations can accomplish much more than any one library acting independently.\u00a0 Social media is opening up more opportunities and ease for collaboration of all forms\u00a0but especially in the area of collection development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>New York Public Library. (2011) \u201cThe New York Public Library and Bibliocommons Partner To Create A New Innovative, Interactive Online Experience\u201d\u00a0 Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/press\/press-release\/2011\/06\/20\/new-york-public-library-and-bibliocommons-partner-create-new-innovati\">http:\/\/www.nypl.org\/press\/press-release\/2011\/06\/20\/new-york-public-library-and-bibliocommons-partner-create-new-innovati<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Dell, S. (2010). Opportunities and Obligations for Libraries in a Social Networking Age: A Survey of Web 2.0 and Networking Sites. J Libr Admin, 50(3)<\/p>\n<p>Scott, Suzanne (2011) &#8220;Collaborative Scholarship in Library and Information Science,&#8221; <em>SLIS Student Research Journal<\/em>: Vol. 1: Iss. 1, Article 1. Available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/scholarworks.sjsu.edu\/slissrj\/vol1\/iss1\/1\">http:\/\/scholarworks.sjsu.edu\/slissrj\/vol1\/iss1\/1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tucker, James Cory, Bullian, J., Torrence, M.C. (2003). \u201cCollaborate or Die! Collection Development in Today\u2019s Academic Library\u201d. \u00a0<em>The Reference Librarian<\/em>. Vol. 40, Issue 83-84. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/research\/collaborate-or-die-collection-development-in-todays-academic-library\/\">http:\/\/www.mendeley.com\/research\/collaborate-or-die-collection-development-in-todays-academic-library\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What kinds of projects are suited to collaboration in information organizations? Collaboration must be mutually beneficial to all participating. Libraries have a lot in common with one another as they provide similar services as portals to information, have similar goals &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/2011\/07\/31\/libraries-collaborate-on-collection-development\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7833,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[292160],"tags":[12763,279398,2807],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libr-559m","tag-collaboration-2","tag-collection-development","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7833"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/46"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/heidijane\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}