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It Takes a Village…To Raise an Electronic Resource: The Collaborative Process of Providing Access
Conference Track
3. Organizational Strategies
Keywords
Collaboration, Acquisitions, Cooperation
Learning Objectives
integrate workflows, call on strategies to bridge internal and external silos
Abstract
Collaboration is a necessity in the modern library environment. Silos are detrimental to this needed collaboration. This presentation will look at the internal and external silos that are required to birth and foster electronic resources and will discuss an example of bridging two groups: public service librarians and acquisitions librarians.