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Partners Of Equals – Libraries “Mixing Molecules” Successfully With Private Organizations, Win Shih

Win Shih

Libraries and information services have a long history of forming joint ventures or partnerships with private organizations to advance services and resources. Such alliances at once boost and boast competitive advantages as described by Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School, including maximization of individual resources, access to collective technology and skilled human assets otherwise prohibitively expensive and precarious to obtain solo, along with minimization of operating expenses as well as minimization of risk.

Furthermore, within such close-knit and symbiotic relationships, participants share information and expertise freely and fluidly. Information, innovation, knowledge and technologies are transferred efficiently amongst participants within …

50th Anniversary: V.A. Artisevich Zonal Scientific Library, Saratov State University & William Robertson Coe Library, University Of Wyoming, 1957-2007, Jennifer Mayer, Alexey Zyuzin

Jennifer Mayer

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William Robertson Coe Library: Reflections On The Past, Jennifer Mayer

Jennifer Mayer

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