On April 10, 2009, the Alliance, a consortium of academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming, convened a conference on “Cooperation: How to Thrive Despite Reduced Funding.” Drawing on the expertise of national and state leaders in the fields of education and economics, conference participants heard from two keynote speakers about the changing environment of libraries and educational institutions. Referencing these changes, then, various local librarians explored ways collaboratively to advance library resources and services. An overview of these conference presentations perhaps may help libraries and their partners in other regions of the United States and elsewhere gain insight into possible collaborative strategies that sustain library development in difficult economic times. Principles of Sustainability Jerry Perry, Library Director at the University of Colorado, Denver Health Sciences Library, set the stage for the conference by outlining some key principles of sustainability. Libraries that are to remain viable information and research centers must avoid the temptation in tough economic times to retreat into isolated silos. Rather, they need to pursue every opportunity to forge partnerships that achieve economies of scale in resource expansion. These opportunities occur in a number of areas including expanded electronic resources, greater interlibrary loan efficiencies, renegotiated consortial discounts, creative shared purchase plans, better-coordinated collaborative collection management and a sustained commitment to courier services. The Prospector network, which provides a unified catalog of holdings in 23 academic, public, and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming with patron initiated borrowing and delivery of materials to the patron’s home library is one existing example of such collaboration within the Colorado Alliance to date. This is to say, sustainability means making the most of the resources we have— human, material and financial. Funding: The Big Picture President David Longanacker of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)1, described the “perfect storm” bearing down upon not only libraries but public institutions and service agencies nation-wide. In a 2005 address to a “Summit” of the Colorado Academic Library Consortium (CLIC), Longanecker spoke of another perfect storm but one affecting at that time only a few states, including Colorado2. Today, the perfect storm encompasses not only the West but the nation as a whole, and it consists of three massive waves3. The first wave is of educational change. Higher education attainment is in decline not only in Colorado and Wyoming but throughout all regions of the United States. The country continues to fall behind others in educational achievement and the overarching effect is that the United States continues to lose its competitiveness on many fronts. The younger population is becoming less educated than the older population, a trend
{"title":"Tough Economic Times Call for More Library Cooperation: Report on a Wyoming and Colorado Alliance Conference","authors":"Jeff Bullington, Janet Lee","doi":"10.29087/2009.1.4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2009.1.4.04","url":null,"abstract":"On April 10, 2009, the Alliance, a consortium of academic, public and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming, convened a conference on “Cooperation: How to Thrive Despite Reduced Funding.” Drawing on the expertise of national and state leaders in the fields of education and economics, conference participants heard from two keynote speakers about the changing environment of libraries and educational institutions. Referencing these changes, then, various local librarians explored ways collaboratively to advance library resources and services. An overview of these conference presentations perhaps may help libraries and their partners in other regions of the United States and elsewhere gain insight into possible collaborative strategies that sustain library development in difficult economic times. Principles of Sustainability Jerry Perry, Library Director at the University of Colorado, Denver Health Sciences Library, set the stage for the conference by outlining some key principles of sustainability. Libraries that are to remain viable information and research centers must avoid the temptation in tough economic times to retreat into isolated silos. Rather, they need to pursue every opportunity to forge partnerships that achieve economies of scale in resource expansion. These opportunities occur in a number of areas including expanded electronic resources, greater interlibrary loan efficiencies, renegotiated consortial discounts, creative shared purchase plans, better-coordinated collaborative collection management and a sustained commitment to courier services. The Prospector network, which provides a unified catalog of holdings in 23 academic, public, and special libraries in Colorado and Wyoming with patron initiated borrowing and delivery of materials to the patron’s home library is one existing example of such collaboration within the Colorado Alliance to date. This is to say, sustainability means making the most of the resources we have— human, material and financial. Funding: The Big Picture President David Longanacker of the Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education (WICHE)1, described the “perfect storm” bearing down upon not only libraries but public institutions and service agencies nation-wide. In a 2005 address to a “Summit” of the Colorado Academic Library Consortium (CLIC), Longanecker spoke of another perfect storm but one affecting at that time only a few states, including Colorado2. Today, the perfect storm encompasses not only the West but the nation as a whole, and it consists of three massive waves3. The first wave is of educational change. Higher education attainment is in decline not only in Colorado and Wyoming but throughout all regions of the United States. The country continues to fall behind others in educational achievement and the overarching effect is that the United States continues to lose its competitiveness on many fronts. The younger population is becoming less educated than the older population, a trend","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"174 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116606060","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The interview discusses the context and basic assertions of the book, "Working Together: Collaborative Information Practices for Organizational Learning" by Mary Somerville.
{"title":"Rethinking Libraries in Terms of Learning and Working Collaboratively: An Interview with Mary Somerville","authors":"M. Somerville, Ivan Gaetz, Janet Lee","doi":"10.29087/2010.2.1.06","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2010.2.1.06","url":null,"abstract":"The interview discusses the context and basic assertions of the book, \"Working Together: Collaborative Information Practices for Organizational Learning\" by Mary Somerville.","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124556586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"New Books from Old, Reprise - Project Ibid & the Power of Ideas","authors":"Mitchell Davis","doi":"10.29087/2009.1.3.07","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2009.1.3.07","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127768472","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Academic librarians are often physically and intellectually isolated at their institutions, and they need to accept much of the blame. Professional literature shows that librarians continue to argue against the responsibilities of tenure, despite the fact that in two of the three usual rubrics of te-nure and promotion—namely publication and service—the expectations for both teaching faculty and librarians are generally the same. In addition, academic librarians will not be treated equally unless they begin to think and work outside of the physical academic library. This article argues for a multidisciplinary approach to academic librarianship, with an emphasis on collaboration as a means to develop visibility through presentations at every level, publications in multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journals, professional memberships in organizations outside of librarianship, and active, vocal committee participation. By reinventing themselves as both subject/discipline and research methods experts, academic librarians will achieve greater exposure as bona fide scholars at their institutions.
{"title":"Escaping the Island of Lost Faculty: Collaboration as a Means of Visibility","authors":"Anthony J. Fonseca, Van P. Viator","doi":"10.29087/2009.1.3.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2009.1.3.04","url":null,"abstract":"Academic librarians are often physically and intellectually isolated at their institutions, and they need to accept much of the blame. Professional literature shows that librarians continue to argue against the responsibilities of tenure, despite the fact that in two of the three usual rubrics of te-nure and promotion—namely publication and service—the expectations for both teaching faculty and librarians are generally the same. In addition, academic librarians will not be treated equally unless they begin to think and work outside of the physical academic library. This article argues for a multidisciplinary approach to academic librarianship, with an emphasis on collaboration as a means to develop visibility through presentations at every level, publications in multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journals, professional memberships in organizations outside of librarianship, and active, vocal committee participation. By reinventing themselves as both subject/discipline and research methods experts, academic librarians will achieve greater exposure as bona fide scholars at their institutions.","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116773355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Library Collaboration and the Changing Environment: an Interview with Rick Lugg, R2 Consulting","authors":"R. Lugg, J. C. Tucker, C. Sugnet","doi":"10.29087/2010.2.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2010.2.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"73 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116342522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Educating Educators with Social Media","authors":"Margie Ruppe","doi":"10.29087/2011.3.4.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2011.3.4.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122366865","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
On its website, Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) refers to itself as a “Reference Manager and Academic Social Network”. In Wikipedia, it is categorized as a “Reference Management Tool”. Similar products, such as Papers and Colwiz, call themselves “Personal Research Libraries” or “Research Management, Collaboration and Productivity in one place”. These varying methods of classifying this new type of tool demonstrate the confusion about what Mendeley is and what it can do for the user. The answer is quite a lot.
{"title":"“Mendeley”: A Review","authors":"A. Hicks","doi":"10.29087/2011.3.2.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2011.3.2.10","url":null,"abstract":"On its website, Mendeley (http://www.mendeley.com/) refers to itself as a “Reference Manager and Academic Social Network”. In Wikipedia, it is categorized as a “Reference Management Tool”. Similar products, such as Papers and Colwiz, call themselves “Personal Research Libraries” or “Research Management, Collaboration and Productivity in one place”. These varying methods of classifying this new type of tool demonstrate the confusion about what Mendeley is and what it can do for the user. The answer is quite a lot.","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122995395","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Strengths and challenges facing library of all types in Mexico and Latin America are addressed. Librarians seeking opportunities for personal and professional development will find national and international library organizations offering exciting programs for involvement and collaboration.
{"title":"Libraries in Mexico: Context and Collaboration. An Interview with Dr. Jesús Lau, President, Mexican Library Association","authors":"J. Lau, Janet Lee","doi":"10.29087/2010.2.2.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2010.2.2.04","url":null,"abstract":"Strengths and challenges facing library of all types in Mexico and Latin America are addressed. Librarians seeking opportunities for personal and professional development will find national and international library organizations offering exciting programs for involvement and collaboration.","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115787552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Review of Collaborative Library Research Projects: Inquiry that Stimulates the Senses","authors":"Sue A. Eckhardt","doi":"10.29087/2009.1.3.10","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.29087/2009.1.3.10","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":114226,"journal":{"name":"Collaborative Librarianship","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131951805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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