– The purpose of this paper is to discuss issues and concerns raised in a collaborative and cooperative central storage facility for Hong Kong academic libraries.
– The approach is to propose and to implement a joint storage business plan and a possibility of acting for others to consider similar storage facilities.
– Useful experiences have been gained while planning a central storage facility.
– The proposed JURA project is for Hong Kong academic libraries.
– The sharing of JURA proposal to create a central storage will inform the libraries around the region of the benefits of having a useful facility in the long term.
– The paper will inform others wishing to set up collaborative storages on governance, storage systems, business plan, problems and issues in what is still a relatively unexplored approach to storage problems.
