[LIS 55] Topic 11. Resource Sharing and Collaboration in Collection Development

• Cooperation


  Short-term, informal, lacking a clearly defined mission and structure, involving no planning and no risk, low intensity, and with authority retained by each organization
• Coordination


  Long-term relationships, focusing on a specific effort or program, requiring some planning, and retaining authority with the individual organization
• Collaboration


  Connotes a more durable and pervasive relationship, long-term, entails commitment to a common mission and a high degree of trust in partners and involves comprehensive planning
• Components in Collaborative Collection Development and Management


  • Resource sharing
  • Bibliographic access
  • Coordinated or collaborative collection building and managing
• The union of resource sharing (fulfillment), bibliographic access (discovery), and coordinated (or collaborative) collection building and managing are essential for collaborative collection development and management
• Trinity of Resource Sharing


  • No library can afford to own or license everything its users will need
  • Every library has some unique or scarcely held materials
  • Resource sharing expands the universe of content available to all
• Interlibrary Loan


  Reciprocal lending and borrowing of materials between libraries
• Unmediated Borrowing


  The process in which a user directly places a request to the lending library from within a shared online catalog, sometimes called direct borrowing
• Status Quo Approach


  A method to build collections wherein the libraries’ total collection will build, on a national scale, reasonable depth in every area of interest
• Coordinated or Collaborative Approach


  A method to build collections wherein different libraries work together to take intentional responsibilities for collecting different materials; also called synergistic approach
• Resource Sharing


  A library program for making requests and delivering resources chiefly through the formal interlibrary loan process
• Bibliographic Access


  Discovering what is available from other libraries by searching online catalogs, bibliographic utilities, or more rarely, printed or microform catalogs
• 1901

  The first regional union catalog was developed in the California State Library
• 1902

  The Library of Congress began its union catalog project on printed cards (National Union Card), cumulating into printed volumes in the 1940s
• WorldCat


  Support prompt contribution of bibliographic records and related data to promote shared use or records and library resources