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Why Ireland needs a CONUL Union Catalogue, Eoin McCarney
Eoin McCarney argues that Ireland needs a CONUL union catalogue to share resources and collections across libraries. A union catalogue would allow for collaborative storage, collection management, digitization and collection development. It could move most print collections to shared management in a few years. By 2027, the collections of each library may effectively belong to all libraries. However, collaboration also presents challenges related to workload, costs, and ensuring access.
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Why Ireland needs a CONUL Union Catalogue, Eoin McCarney
- 1. Why Ireland needsa CONUL union catalogue? Eoin McCarney, UCD Library CONUL Conference, Athlone, June 2nd 2016
- 2. Outline • Benefits ofCONUL union catalogue • A shared vison for the future • Challenges of collaboration
- 11. A shared vision ofthe future?
- 12. Collaborative…. • Storage • Collectionmanagement • Digitisation • Collection development
- 13. “We anticipate thata 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
- 14. “By 2027, yourcollections will be mine, and mine will be yours” Caroline Brazier – LIBER 2015
- 15. Challenges of Collaboration •Workload • Cost in time and money • Access, Access, Access
- 17.
Editor's Notes
- #9 Increase brand awareness – CONUL is not a well known or well understood brand. This needs to change, we are doing lots of good work. We need people to know who we are and what we do. We can do this with our new website and a union catalogue.
- #10 A flagship for Irish research and culture. Irish studies is one of the fastest growing humanities disciplines worldwide. CONUL libraries have world class holdings of Irish related material – vital to researchers across the globe. Why not bring it together in one place.
- #11 Give us a platform for collaboration- when we try to do things together it’s difficult without shared holdings. CONUL distributed print archive, I.L.L etc.