Library Consortia. Practical Guide for Library Managers

133 Pages·2016·1.13 MB·English

by  Aditya Tripathi

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LIBRARY
CONSORTIA
Practical Guide for
Library Managers
ADITYA TRIPATHI
JAWAHAR LAL
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Dr. Aditya Tripathi is associate professor in the Department of Library
and Information Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India. He has
taught library science for 15 years. He has supervised five doctoral disserta-
tions. He has taught digitization, digital libraries, digital preservation,
information retrieval systems, Web applications, and library management.
Dr. Tripathi earned his Associateship in Documentation and Information
Science from Documentation Research and Training Centre, Indian Sta-
tistical Institute, Bangalore and his Doctorate from Pune University, Pune.
He has more than 50 research publications in various national and inter-
national journals and conferences and five books to his credit. He has
contributed several courses in M.Lib.I.Sc, B.Lib.ISc and Post Graduate
Diploma in Library Automation and Networking of Indira Gandhi
National Open University, New Delhi. He has traveled widely across India
and abroad as a resource person to several conferences, seminars, and
workshops. He was awarded Best Young Teacher by the Indian Association
of Special Libraries and Information Centres in 2012.
Dr. Jawahar Lal earned his doctorate from Banaras Hindu University. He
has worked as semi-professional assistant (contractual) in the Department of
Metallurgical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu Univer-
sity, Varanasi. He was assistant librarian at Kashi Naresh Government Post
Graduate College, Gyanpur, Sant Ravidas Nagar Bhadohi under the Direc-
torate of Higher Education, Uttar Pradesh, Allahabad. At present, he is
working as assistant librarian at Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Library, Central Library,
Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. He is supervising the periodical, news-
paper and magazines and thesis sections of the library. He has written several
publications on library consortia.
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PREFACE
Libraries are information processing organizations and are in continual
interaction with the environment. Academic libraries and their services are
an integral part of teaching and learning. They form a partnership with
faculty, researchers, publishers, students, and funding agencies. Librarians
and libraries are known for their willingness to share resources and knowl-
edge. With the help of new technologies, libraries can now serve their
patrons without barriers of time and space.
Libraries are facing increasing demands for resources and services and at
the same time declining levels of human and financial resources. Libraries,
therefore, are not able to provide these services successfully on their own. A
natural development resulting from this situation is the development of
library consortia. It has also been an opportunity to explore new ways of
collaborating, and consortia have been a catalyst for promoting
cooperation.
Library consortia primarily aim to fulfill the educational, intellectual,
informational, and social aspirations of users through the cooperative provi-
sion of superior quality library resources and services. The main service that
a consortium offers to its member organizations is negotiation of licenses
with good pricing and legal conditions. Since the majority of the providers
are foreign, the consortium helps to solve legal problems concerning the
adaptation of the licenses to the concerned country’s law.
Libraries have a very rich tradition of sharing, and thus the consortia
arrangements or resource sharing amongst libraries. Libraries are faced with
several environmental circumstances (cultural, economic, political, etc.) that
are unique compared to other service sectors. The emerging changes in the
publishing industry and a phenomenal increase in Web-based resources as
well as other organizational imperatives after 1990 have forced libraries to
move toward a strategic partnership. Hence, several efforts toward formation
of consortia have been made at global, national, and regional levels to pro-
vide shared Web-based electronic resources to research, academic, and tech-
nical libraries.
There are neither any defined guidelines nor any established models to
help the librarians to establish a formal consortium where the members are
legally bound and also protected for their decisions. This is mostly a kind of
coming together for libraries facing the same difficulties toward procuring
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e-content. This includes formation of a body (which we call a consortium),
identifying the needs, finding the suitable subscription agents, negotiating
or striking the deal, licensing, and so on. The strategies are adopted based on
individual experiences or previous experiences with the principle of “suit-
ability to the objective(s).”
This book is attempt to provide insight into library consortia and
includes topics like consortia formation models, types of e-content, pricing,
negotiations, and licensing. This book will be useful for library professionals
and practitioners, students, and researchers.
LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
AGLIN Australian Government Libraries Information Network
AICTE All India Council for Technical Education
AIIMS All India Institute of Medical Sciences
AIP American Institute of Physics
ALPSP Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
AMICAL American International Consortium of Academic Libraries
AMS American Mathematical Society
ANKOS Anatolian University Libraries Consortium
ARL Association of Research Libraries
ASA Association of Subscription Agents & Intermediaries
ASP Average Subscription Price
ASPPI Average Subscription Price per Issue
AULC Andalucian University Libraries Consortium (University Library
Consortium of Andalucía)
AULC Arizona University Libraries Consortium
BARC Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
CAICO Cape Libraries Cooperative
CALIBNET Calcutta Library Network
CALICO Cape Library Consortium
CALIS China Academic Library and Information System
CARL Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries
CASHL China Academic Humanities and Social Sciences Library
CATNIP Cataloguing Network in Pietermeritzbug
CAUL Council of Australian University Librarians
CAVAL Co-operative Action by Victorian Academic Libraries
CBUC Consortium of Catalonia University Libraries (Consorcio de Bibliotecas
Universitarias de Cataluña
CCALD Council of Connecticut Academic Library Directors
CCF Cross-Correlation Function
CCMC Central Connectivity Monitoring Committee
CEIRC CAUL Electronic Information Resources Committee
CeRA Consortium for e-Resources in Agriculture
CERL Consortium of European Research Libraries
CIBER Comitato Interuniversitario Basi Dati ed Editoria in Rete
CIC Committee on Institutional Cooperation
CILEA Consorzio Interuniversitario Lombardo per L’Elaborazione Automatica
CIPE Center for International Private Enterprise
CISTI Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information
CONZULAC Committee of New Zealand University Librarians Acquisitions
Consortium
COPPUL Council of Prairie and Pacific University Libraries
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xii List of Abbreviations
COUPERIN Consortium Universitaire des Périodiques Numériques
CPP Core plus Peripheral
CRL Center for Research Libraries
CSIR Council of Scientific and Industrial Research
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation in
Australia
CONZUL Committee of New Zealand University Libraries
CSIRO Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
CUP Cambridge University Press
CURL Consortium of University Research Libraries
DAE Department of Atomic Energy
DELNET Delhi Library Network
DESIDOC Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre
DGHS Director General of Health Services
DLR Dynamic Language Runtime
DOS Department of Space
DSIR Department of Scientific and Industrial Research
DST Department of Science and Technology
EARL Electronic Access to Resources in Libraries
EFC Expenditure Finance Committee
eIFL Electronic Information for Libraries
E-RAMS E-Resources Access Management System
ERIMS Electronic Resources of Indian Management Schools
ERNET Education and Research Network
ESAL Eastern Seaboard Alliance of Libraries
ETD Electronic Theses Databases
FinELib Finnish National Electronic Library Consortium
FORSA Forum for Resource Sharing in Astronomy and Astrophysics
FREELICO Free State Library and Information Consortium
FTE Full-Time Equivalents
GAELIC Gauteng and Environs Library Consortium
GALILEO Georgia Library Learning Online
HEAL-Link Hellenic Academic Libraries Link
HELINET Health Sciences Library & Information Network
HOLIC Heads of Libraries and Information Centers
IARI Indian Agricultural Research Institute
ICAR Indian Council of Agricultural Research
ICAST Information Centre for Aerospace Science and Technology
ICE Information/Communications/Entertainment
ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research
ICOLC International Coalition of Library Consortia
ICT Information Communication Technology
IDAL Illinois Digital Academic Library and netLibrary
IEL IEEE’s Electronic Library
IFLA International Federation of Library Associations
List of Abbreviations xiii
IIA Indian Institute of Astrophysics
IIM Indian Institutes of Management
IISc Indian Institute of Science
IIT Indian Institutes of Technology
IKP ICICI Knowledge Park
ILCSO Illinois Library Computer Systems Organization
ILL Inter Library Loan
ILLINET Illinois Library and Information Network
INDEST Indian National Digital Library in Engineering Science and Technology
INFLIBNET Information and Library Network
INSDOC Indian National Scientific Documentation Centre
IP Internet Protocol
IPR Intellectual Property Right
ISI Indian Statistical Institute
ISO International Standards Organization
ISRO Indian Space Research Organization
ICT Information Communication Technology
IUC Inter-University Centre
IUCAA Inter University Centre for Astronomy and Astrophysics
IULC Inter-University Library Committee
JCCC J-Gate Custom Content for Consortium
JISC Joint Information Systems Committee
KERIS Korea Education & Research Information Service
LIC Library and Information Center
LISA Library and Information Science Abstracts
MALIBNET Madras Library Network
MARC MAchine-Readable Cataloging
MCI Medical Council of India
METROWeb Metropolitan New York Library Council
MIRACL Missouri Research Consortium of Libraries
MIT Ministry of Information Technology
MOHFW Ministry of Health and Family Welfare
MoU Memorandum of Understanding
MURST Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca Scientifica
NAFEN National Foundation of Indian Engineers
NAIP National Agricultural Innovation Project
NAL National Aerospace Laboratory
NARS National Agricultural Research System
NASA National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NBHM National Board for Higher Mathematics
NCLive North Carilina Live
NELP New Exploration Licensing Policy
NERL North East Research Libraries
NESLI National Electronic Site License Initiative
NISCAIR National Institute of Science Communication and Information Resource
xiv List of Abbreviations
NISCOM National Institute of Science Communication
NISO National Information Standards Organization
NIT National Institute of Technology
NKRC National Knowledge Resource Consortium
NLR Netherlands Leprosy Relief
NML-ERMED National Medical Library-Electronic Resources in Medicine
NRC National Review Committee
NSC National Steering Committee
OCLC Online Computer Library Centre
ODLIS Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science
OED Oxford English Dictionary
OhioLINK Ohio Library and Information Network
OLIS Office of Library and Information Services
ONERA Office National d’Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (French
Aerospace Lab)
OPAC Online Public Access Catalogs
OSA Optical Society of America
OUP Oxford University Press
PALCI Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium Inc.
PCT Primary Care Trust
PDF Portable Document Format
PEAK Pricing Electronic Access to Knowledge
PPV Pay-per View
PRL Physical Research Laboratory
QGLC Queensland Government Libraries Consortium
R&D Research & Development
RGUHS Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences
RISS Research Information Service System
RLG Research Libraries Group
RLIN Research Library Information Network
ROI Return on Investment
RRI Raman Research Institute
RRL Regional Research Laboratory
SABINET South African Bibliographic and Information Network
SAILOR Maryland’s Public Information Network
SALUS South Australian Health Services Libraries Consortium
SANLiC South African National Library and Information Consortium
SBBL Sistema Bibliotecario Biomedica Lombardo
SCELC Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium
SCI Science Citation Index
SDC System Development Corporation
SEALS South Eastern Academic Library System
SINP Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics
SMT Strategic Management Team
SOLINET Southeastern Library Network