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1 online resource (ix, 202 pages :) : illustrations |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Library consortia overview / Valerie Horton -- Consortial landscape / Greg Pronevitz -- Managing consortia / Valerie Horton -- Consortia services / Valerie Horton -- Discovery, e-content delivery, and resource sharing / Tracey Leger-Hornby and Greg Pronevitz -- Physical delivery : future and present / Lori Bowen Ayre and Greg Pronevitz -- Case study 1. Online instruction / Jennifer Hootman, Matt Lee, and Mary Parker -- Case study 2. Enki experiment : library e-book consortia system / Linda Crowe and Heather Teysko -- Case study 3. Statewide e-book project for multi-type libraries in Massachusetts / Deborah Hoadley -- Case study 4. Article licensing information availability service (ALIAS) / Mark Sullivan -- Case study 5. Embracing wide deals (inter-consortial licensing) / Ann Okerson -- Case study 6. Open SUNY Textbook program / Cyril Oberlander -- Case study 7. Interstate library delivery / Kathy Drozd -- Case study 8. Open source integrated library systems : a consortial implementation of Evergreen / Randy Dykhuis -- Case study 9. Open source software and consortium governance structure / Vicki Teal Lovely -- Case study 10. Vendor-based shared integrated library systems / Jeanine Gatzke and Belinda E. Lawrence -- Case study 11. Enhancing access to history : collaborative digital initiatives / Liz Bishoff -- Case study 12. Shared physical depository : Five College Library Depository / Jay Schafer -- Case study 13. 2CUL : a case study in research library shared staffing / Anne R. Kenney and James Neal -- Case study 14. Human resources management : contractual staffing at a library consortium / Lisa Priebe -- Case study 15. BiblioTemps : a temporary employment service for libraries in Massachusetts / Kelly Jo Woodside -- Case study 16. Consortial fiscal sponsorship / Valerie Horton. |
| Summary |
With over 35 years of experience managing five different library consortia between them, Horton and Pronevitz are uniquely qualified to show how consortia have been transforming themselves, offering new services and products while growing ever more important to the library community. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Library cooperation -- United States.
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Library cooperation. |
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United States. |
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Library cooperation -- United States -- Case studies.
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| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Added Author |
Horton, Valerie, editor.
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Pronevitz, Greg, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version Library consortia. Chicago : ALA Editions, An imprint of the American Library Association, 2015 9780838912188 (DLC) 2014016667 (OCoLC)881848422 |
| ISBN |
0838912486 (electronic book) |
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9780838912485 (electronic book) |
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9780838912492 |
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0838912494 |
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9780838912188 (paper ; softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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0838912184 (paper ; softcover ; alkaline paper) |
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9780838912508 (Kindle) |
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