Beyond the Library Collections: Proceedings of the 2022 Erasmus Staff Training Week at ULi\`ege Library

TL;DR

This paper discusses collaborative strategies and innovative services like resource sharing, digitization, and purchase-on-demand to enhance access to library materials beyond individual collections, based on experiences from the 2022 Erasmus Staff Training Week.

Contribution

It presents a comprehensive overview of modern collaborative practices and policies adopted by academic and research libraries to improve resource accessibility and sharing.

Findings

Libraries increasingly adopt resource sharing and collaboration.

Digitalization and workflows enhance access to materials.

Partnerships and policies are key to successful collection expansion.

Abstract

No library can buy or hold everything its patrons need. 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 Li\`ege 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. Keywords: Collaboration between libraries; Collection Development; Academic Libraries; Research Libraries; Interlibrary Loan; ILL; Resource Sharing; Purchase on Demand; Patron-Driven Acquisition; PDA; Evidence-Based Acquisition; EBA; Alma; Koha; RapidILL; Impala; Subito; Library systems; Digitalization; Workflows