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A Joint Library Of Two Universities Case: Lappeenranta Academic Library, Ulla Ohvo, Iris Tahvanainen, Marja Talikka
A Joint Library Of Two Universities Case: Lappeenranta Academic Library, Ulla Ohvo, Iris Tahvanainen, Marja Talikka
Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences
The number of universities and universities of applied sciences has been cut down in Finland. This process will be the future trend. Different levels of collaborative work is going on in order to find new forms of organizing library services. In 2011 Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) and Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (SUAS) set up a joint library, Lappeenranta Academic Library (LAL). Arrangements and planning were carried out in 1,5 yrs. The project was many-sided as a joint library was to be created, not to merge two universities. The Academic Library is a part of LUT organization and the …