Library consortium potentials in the 21st century Informatio Medicata Conference Sep 17-18., Budapest, Hungary Endre Béky, Account Manager, Academic and Government MONTH: April 2009

Agenda Collaboration and Leadership Innovation Resource Sharing E-Resources Challanges in Eastern Europe

Collaboration and Leadership Facilitate effective communication around members’ needs. Catalyze communication and evaluation of emerging trends. Investigate an increase staffing levels and funding capabilities to strengthen leadership strategies and customer support services to members. Enhance and expand the visibility of the consortium in partnership with member libraries through various means such as marketing, white papers, or conference presentations. Educate member libraries on issues, innovations, services and best practices for physical and digital collections.

Innovation Foster a climate of experimentation and acceptable risk through piloting new technologies and services, balancing rapid implementation with appropriate consultation. Explore ways to provide seamless integration of disparate content discovery tools. Explore opportunities to work with outside organizations to improve services. Encourage and support innovation and experimentation in member libraries.

Resource Sharing Broaden access to consortium member collections through digitization and other means. Explore alternatives to physical delivery. Improve time from request to delivery to 2-3 days within consortium. Work toward establishing standardized transaction times and loan periods among libraries.

E-Resources Create clear, realizable, consortia licensing principles to guide consortium and member libraries in effective negotiations. Educate member libraries on techniques and best practice for e-resource negotiations. Work with other consortia and publishers to create new models for e-resource acquisitions.

Challanges in Eastern Europe Lack of budget transparancy, no information on website for taxpayers Bureucratic and slow tender process, delayed invoice payments Lack of members control of consortium leadership (top-down organizational structure) Members have limited knowledge of consortium rights and duties Scare resources for budget, staff, and operation Long term strategic planning is not visible or communicated VAT issue on electronic vs print content. Prhobits more efficient e-delivery and usage of new technologies

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