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Why Ireland needs a CONUL union catalogue?
Eoin McCarney,
UCD Library
CONUL Conference, Athlone, June 2nd 2016
Outline
• Benefits of CONUL union catalogue • A shared vison for the future • Challenges of collaboration
A shared vision of the future?
Collaborative….
• Storage
• Collection management
• Digitisation
• Collection development
“We anticipate that a large part of existing print collections, distributed across many libraries, will move into coordinated or shared management within a few years” Lorcan Dempsey Collection Directions (2014): Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie
“By 2027, your collections will be mine, and mine will be yours” Caroline Brazier – LIBER 2015
Challenges of Collaboration
• Workload
• Cost in time and money
• Access, Access, Access