People's Network cooperation between libraries
Many public library services in the UK are collaborating on
networking projects including the delivery of the People's
Network infrastructure. There are several good reasons to work
together including:
- Financial - pooling the purchasing power of a number of
organisations can help to bring down the cost of installing
and maintaining networks, and acquiring new electronic
resources.
- Service delivery - different providers of a particular type
of service (such as learning services) can make their
services available to users of similar organisations over
the same network.
- Partnerships - partnerships between organisations providing
many different types of service may derive strategic
benefits from working together. An example of this might be
a partnership between a rural village library and a post
office and a police station where they all share a network
to drive down costs.
Country-wide co-operation
Scotland
Wales
Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Libraries portal site
has been delivered as part of ELFNI - Electronic Libraries for
Northern Ireland - a project that has connected all libraries in
Northern Ireland to the internet and led to shared networked
services across the whole of Northern Ireland.
Regional co-operation in England
There is a great deal of regional and sub-regional library
networking collaboration taking place in England in library
development agencies as well as through the shared planning
frameworks of the 9 Regional Agencies under the e-society
programme for museums, libraries and archives. Further
information about the e-society programme is available in the Regions section.
Here are some examples of regional and sub-regional library
networking co-operation:
Network co-operation with other organisations
There are also many examples of libraries working with other
types of organisations in order to further networking
developments. Here are just a few examples:
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