Collaborative Librarianship

Focus and Scope

Increasingly, libraries are moved to seek partnerships with other libraries, with other organizations in the information and technology fields, with other entities in our institutions, and with other groups and enterprises in our communities. While partnerships of all sorts have had a long history in the field of librarianship, today, as never before, there is greater urgency to develop and exploit library partnerships, and to think widely and creatively on new types of, and potentials for, partnerships.

Published materials appear from time to time on library cooperation and partnerships. Most recently, the America Library Association produced the volume, Burgett, James, John Hear and Linda L. Phillips. Collaborative Collection Development. A Practical Guide for Your Library (Chicago: ALA, 2004), 211 p. From time to time, articles appear in various library journals. These welcomed items provide insightful analyses of cases and opportunities of cooperative librarianship. At present, to my knowledge, there is no journal dedicated to the topic of cooperative librarianship, or dedicated to any aspect of resource sharing or coordinated library services.

As the issue rises in importance and urgency, perhaps now is the time to create an organum for treating consistently and comprehensively the matter of cooperative librarianship.

Mission

Such a journal on cooperative librarianship would meet, in part, some of the goals identified at the June CALC General Meeting as important to academic libraries. These include:

• “To improve access to and delivery of information resources. Promote knowledge infrastructure for Colorado.”
• “To develop a system of sustainable ongoing resources to maintain and develop an excellent library system for Colorado.”
• “To enhance human resource development at CALC Libraries: … Publish an academic online journal.”
• What is good for Colorado in this regard may also be good for the wider library community in the United States and elsewhere.

http://www.collaborativelibrarianship.org/index.php/jocl/index

First Monday

Focus and Scope

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 977 papers in 154 issues; these papers were written by 1,227 different authors. In addition, eight special issues have appeared. The most recent special issue was entitled A Web site with a view — The Third World on First Monday and it was edited by Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla. First Monday is indexed in Communication Abstracts, Computer & Communications Security Abstracts, DoIS, eGranary Digital Library, INSPEC, Information Science & Technology Abstracts, LISA, PAIS, and other services.

Temática y Alcance (resumen)
First Monday es una de las primeras revistas de acceso abierto y revisada por pares de Internet, dedicada únicamente a Internet. Desde sus comienzos en Mayo de 1996, First Moday ha publicado 977 artículos en 154 números; estos fueron escritos por 1,227 diferentes autores. Además, se publicaron 8 ediciones especiales.


http://firstmonday.org