Libraries Beyond their Institutions
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Libraries Beyond their Institutions: Partnerships that Work
Edited by W. Miller and R.M. PellenHaworth PressBinghamton, NY2006230 pp.ISBN 0-7890-2909-X$39.95
Keywords: Communities, Library services
People from academic and college libraries across the US have written the 15 chapters of this book. The theme of this collection of papers is the possible co-operation and contact between such libraries and the organisations in their area. The latter cover governmental, business and community enterprises. The co-operative schemes include education initiatives, community projects,acquisition of online information services at preferential rates for the locality, providing online access to locally useful information, and so on. Chapter headings include: “Partnerships in information literacy”“Statewide training projects” “Co-operative library services”“Managing grey literature” “Patent and trademark depository libraries” “Vendor/library collaboration”.
