Libraries Beyond Their Institutions

Partnerships That Work

Rita Pellen, William Miller

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317954866
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Discover collaborative possibilities for your library beyond mere memberships in bibliographic utilities

Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work illustrates the remarkable range of cooperative activities in which libraries are engaged in order to provide the best possible service. Increasingly, librarians recognize the need to link their institutions to the world around them as part of their obligation to enhance the integration of digital information, not only for students in academic settings, but also throughout all levels of society. An excellent companion and complement to Libraries Within Their Institutions: Creative Collaborations (Haworth) from the same editors, this unique book examines the variety of ways librarians work with community organizations, government agencies, professional organizations, minority communities, and city governments in their efforts to serve not just students in academic settings, but all of society.

Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work reflects the growing understanding of the key role played by libraries in the development of civil society. This unique book examines the variety of possibilities for collaborations outside institutions, including the ways librarians function in a variety of other campus settings, such as writing centers, teaching excellence centers, and academic departments in support of teaching, learning, and research; partnerships with graduate school, and information resources management to preserve theses and dissertations electronically; promoting civic partnerships; initiating a campus-wide information literacy resource; and partnering with government agencies to form a data literacy program.

Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work provides practical information on:

• collaborative training programs to develop baseline competencies in academic libraries to support data services
  
• the Chicano/Latino Network and the Community Digital Initiative
  
• developing an international presence through digital resource sharing
  
• successful models of statewide library consortia
  
• technology-based partnerships
  
• promoting K-20 information literacy
  
• collaborations between the United States Patent and Trademark Office and patent and trademark depository libraries (PTDL)
  
• the development of AgEcon Search, an alternative method of delivering research results

Libraries Beyond Their Institutions: Partnerships That Work is an invaluable resource for librarians working in academic, school, special, and public settings, and for library science faculty and students.

Index

Page numbers followed by f indicate figures; those followed by t indicate tables.

A Place at the Table: Participating in Community Building, 92

AAEA. See American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA)

AASL. See American Association of School Librarians (AASL)

AASL National Conference, 7

AASL/ACRL Blueprint for Collaboration, 6

AASL/ACRL Standing Committee on Information Literacy, 7

AASL/ACRL Task Force, 7

Abilene network, 117

Academic librarians, in establishment of K-12 school partnerships, 6–11

Academic libraries, collaborations with, 151–152

Academic Libraries Advisory (ALS) Committee of NCES, 83

Academic Technology Center (ATC), 16, 17

Access, enhanced, 123

Access Grid node, 117

ACRL. See Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

ACRL Personnel Administrators and Staff Development Officers Discussion Group, 80

Adobe Acrobat, 163

Advanced Collaboration Workshops, 33, 34, 37

Advanced collaborative project planning workshop, 39–41

AERO (Agricultural Economics Reference Organization), 163

Agada, J., 32

AgEcon, 157–166

background of, 162

growth through collaboration, 163–164

institutional repositories of, 159

introduction to, 158–159

structure of, 162–163

subject-based repositories of, 159–161

AgEcon Search, 2

AgEcon Search International, 164–165

Agreement(s), defined, 141

Agricultural Economics Reference Organization (AERO), 163

Agricultural/applied economics, literature of, 161–162

AIKCU. See Association of Independent Kentucky Colleges and Universities (AIKCU)

AIPA. See American Inventors Protection Act (AIPA)

ALA. See American Library Association (ALA)

ALA Annual Conference, 7

ALA Copyright Office, 21

ALA Midwinter 1998, 204

ALA/ACRL, 2

Alabama Virtual Library (AVL), 54

Alberico, R., 53

Albert Shanker Institute, 93

Alexander, A.W., 52

ALS Committee. See Academic Libraries Advisory (ALS) Committee

American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA), 163, 164

American Association of School Librarians (AASL), 6, 98

American Economic Association, 160

American Embassy, Public Affairs Officer at, 107

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction: Cooperation Outside of Institutions
• Building a Foundation for Collaboration: K-20 Partnerships in Information Literacy
• Building Bridges: A Research Library Model for Technology-Based Partnerships
• Play with the Slinky®: Learning to Lead Collaboration Through a Statewide Training Project Aimed at Grants for Community Partnerships
• Library Consortia: Do the Models Always Work?
• Cooperative Library Services in Southeast Florida: A Staff Perspective
• Library Assessment as a Collaborative Enterprise
• Civic Partnerships: The Role of Libraries in Promoting Civic Engagement
• Another Kind of Diplomacy: International Resource Sharing
• Preparing Ethnic Non-Profits for the 21st Century
• Community Collaborations at Work and in Practice Today: An A to Z Overview
• Managing the Grey Literature of a Discipline Through Collaboration: AgEcon Search
• Collaborative Training in Statistical and Data Library Services: Lessons from the Canadian Data Liberation Initiative
• Patent and Trademark Depository Libraries and the United States Patent and Trademark Office: A Model for Information Dissemination
• Vendor/Library Collaboration–An Opportunity for Sharing
• Index