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STRATEGIC PLAN
Cooperation in Collection Development
Objectives:
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To
promote resource sharing among members.
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To
ensure cooperation in the selection and funding of shared resources.
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To
compile and use Union Catalogue of Monographs
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To
set up and maintain an On-line Public Access Catalogue (OPAC)
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To
maintain joint purchase agreements with vendors/suppliers of books,
journals (paper and electronic) to ensure reduction in prices.
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To
make academic resources of each member available to all others and
also to exchange scholarly library and information services on a
more formal basis within the network
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To
establish national and international partnerships agreements for
joint collection building, information resource sharing for the
benefit of users.
Provision
of Electronic Information Service
Objectives
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To
facilitate a cooperative acquisition of electronic resources for
members
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To
jointly acquire a common electronic Library System
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To
ensure continuous and uninterrupted on-line access to journals
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To
ensure the availability of on line catalogues of members with links
to sites of other members.
Standardisation of Services
Objectives:
Interlibrary Lending and Document
Delivery Services.
Objectives:
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To
compile and use a Union List of Serials
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To
ensure effective Interlibrary Lending activities
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To
ensure direct and speedy document delivery systems.
Training
and Capacity Building
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To
identify training needs
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To
maintain a current list of experts in the various areas of library
work.
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To
provide state of the art training programmes and opportunities for
library personnel to enable them offer optimum information access
and high level of information literacy to users.
Financial Sustainability
Objectives:
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To
ensure that funds are available to carry out consortium activities
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To
actively seek additional funding from sources other than the
members’ institutions to carry out the consortium activities.
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To
register the consortium as a non-profit making charitable
organisation
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To
contribute funds towards shared collections
Advocacy
and Marketing of Services
Objectives
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To
advocate for and market the Consortium and its services.
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To
promote the function of university/research libraries as partners in
teaching, learning research and service to the community.
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To
demonstrate that university/research libraries offer services very
relevant to national development.
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To
act as a channel to government and other bodies in planning and
decision making policy for the country.
SUSTAINABILITY & FUTURE PLANS
Sustainability
Sustainability
is an activity’s continuing ability to deliver services or sustain
benefits without external aid. Consortium building is a very expensive
activity and so there must be a justification for the costs.
Members
are aware of this and are determined to maintain the Consortium. A firm
decision has therefore been taken to make contributions from local
sources and solicit for additional funding from within and outside the
country, to sustain the Consortium. The cooperative sharing and access
to each other’s resources ensures that each member has much more
materials than it actually could have owned. This means that resources
are shared equally among members and therefore costs are also shared
equally. The issue of a smaller academic library and a bigger academic
library, sharing costs in proportion to their sizes therefore does not
apply in a consortium of this type. Size does not necessary determine
use or access. In spite of this, the Governing Board will determine
costs for small special libraries on their merit.
FUTURE PLANS:
The
Vision of CARLIGH is to provide great access so information, print and
electronic, first to its primary users and then to the general public in
formats useful to them.
CARLIGH
will embark on regular fund raising activities to garner funds to carry
out its activities. It will strengthen the existing links with other
consortia, especially elfL.net that has proved to be a very beneficial
link and ICOLC and also pursue the establishment of new links.
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