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

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. Thank you for your attention!
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