Smarter Libraries through Technology Increasing Impact and Efficiency through Collaborative Technology

摘要

Driven by ever-increasing pressures to operate more efficiently, libraries continue to collaborate through partnerships,networks, or consortia participating in shared technology environments for the management and discovery of their collections. Through participation in a shared system, libraries can see significant cost savings for technology infrastructure compared to independent implementations. These libraries can also devote their technology personnel to other tasks supporting the library other than maintaining local servers and systems. More importantly, these shared systems enable libraries to have more impact, through providing access to a much broader array of resources than would be possible through the collections they acquire directly.