No library can buy or hold everything its patrons need. Lire la suite
At a certain point, librarians need to pool their resources and collaborate to provide access
to what they don't have: Collaboration and partnership, centralized and shared collection storage, digitization projects, interlibrary loan and resource sharing, purchase on demand, PDA and EBA are notably key to success.
The 2022 edition of the Erasmus Mobility Staff Training week organized at the University of Liège Library focused on services, projects and policies that libraries can deploy and promote to increase and ease access to materials that do not belong to their print or electronic holdings.
More than 20 librarians, managers, and researchers in library science share their experiences and visions in this book that is available in open access: https://e-publish.uliege.be/beyond-the-library-collections
Faire fonctionner un système démocratique a un prix. Ce coût suscite régulièrement interrogations et polémiques, tant en ce qui concerne les montants en jeu que les règles en vigueur. En outre, au cours des dernières décennies, différentes « affaires » ont fait passer cette thématique des colonnes politiques des médias à leur rubrique judiciaire.