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Finding Library Solutions In Adjacent Industries, Lori Bowen Ayre
Finding Library Solutions In Adjacent Industries, Lori Bowen Ayre
Collaborative Librarianship
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The Quest For Sustainability In International Library Development: The Experience Of The Riecken Foundation, John Boyd, Elizabeth Cramer
The Quest For Sustainability In International Library Development: The Experience Of The Riecken Foundation, John Boyd, Elizabeth Cramer
Collaborative Librarianship
The Riecken Foundation provides support to communities in developing countries to create sustainable partnership library programs focusing on collection development, technology applications, and assembling professional staff and volunteers. This article studies the experience of the Foundation through research gathered in interviews with Bill Cartwright, President and CEO of the Foundation, along with onsite observations at six participating libraries, and offers analysis of documentation related to these sustainability initiatives. The study also examines the transition of the Foundation from a private foundation to a public charity and the effect this has had in its programming.
Selecting A Shared 21st Century Management System, Al Cornish, Richard Jost, Xan Arch
Selecting A Shared 21st Century Management System, Al Cornish, Richard Jost, Xan Arch
Collaborative Librarianship
This paper describes the factors that led the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a 37 institution academic library consortium in the Pacific Northwest, to move to a shared library management system. The steps that the Alliance and its 37 member libraries took over a period of years are summarized, including the work of several research and planning groups and a formal Request for Information process. A subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP) process ended in the selection of Ex Libris Alma management system and Primo discovery services for Alliance libraries. The paper also describes the Alliance’s vision for the shared library management system, …