research libraries (in general) would see the most benefit from multi-institutional models for:...

Research libraries (in general) would see the most benefit from multi-institutional models for:

Redefining Libraries as Multi-institutional Entities

Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting sessionQuestion posed by Carole Moore (Toronto)

My library is most ready to accept building a jointly funded and managed operation with other libraries around [choose one]:



My faculty and students would be willing to suspend purchase of print copies of materials available electronically and rely on inter-library loan or the collective purchase of print copes to be owned collectively by multiple institutions.



Within 5 years, shared collection print storage programs are most likely for:



The major barrier to library collaboration is:



The library’s involvement in virtual communities is likely to be:


Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting sessionQuestion posed by Wendy Lougee (Minnesota)

I would be willing to commit my institution to making public the content of publisher agreements, including pricing, special arrangements, and other privileges.


Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting sessionQuestion posed by Anne Kenney (Cornell)

I am willing to commit my institution to forego one-on-one arrangements with commercial entities around digitization of special collections materials in favor of collective arrangements involving multiple research libraries.


Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting sessionQuestion posed by Anne Kenney (Cornell)

I am willing to pay a recurring annual fee to another library for a service that benefits my constituents and the broader community.


Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting sessionQuestion posed by Kevin Guthrie (Ithaka)

Where rights are not an issue, my library would be willing to combine its institutional repository with those of other libraries so that scholars could search for pre-publication content by subject rather than just through one library’s holdings.


Results of informal audience responses from ARL May 2009 Membership Meeting sessionQuestion posed by Kevin Guthrie (Ithaka)

research libraries (in general) would see the most benefit from multi-institutional models for:...

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