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Unit 4: Library Cooperation

10. The acquisition and processing of periodicals are not the common functions in academic, Notes
special and public libraries.

4.3 Levels in Library Cooperation

To ensure effectiveness of its services, conservation and protection of its collections, staff training
and professional development, libraries cooperate with departmental libraries working within
university library-information system, many local, national and international libraries as well
as schools of library and information science. They also belong to many professional societies
and organizations. In recent years, following the evolution of computer science and information
processing techniques, all the libraries were actively developing their information services,
joining in consortia and establishing new projects aimed at creating the common basis, central
catalogues and data exchange. To fully implement their aims, Libraries cooperate with many
partners on multiple levels:
1. Local level: Cooperation on local level is accomplish with collaboration with departmental
libraries working within university library-information system – on interuniversity level,
as well as with other libraries in the region. The main purpose here is to improve services
to the academic and general public. This cooperation runs through bilateral integration,
experience exchange and staff internships.
This cooperation includes:
organizing training sessions and internships for the students by the Library,

active participation of the Library employees in didactical activities of the Institute,
access to the collections and reading rooms for the education purposes of the Institute,
participation of the Library staff in conferences, lectures and seminars organized by
the Institute.

The Library staffs are regular participants as lecturers and audience in the sessions of the
Librarianship Section of the Educational Society.
2. National level: Traditional fields of cooperation between libraries include:

interlibrary loans,
assistance in creating the central catalogues,
internship programs to improve the professional skills of the staff, that were widen
because of development of new information technologies and progressing
computerization of libraries, and partnership cooperation has taken new shape –
associating in more or less formal consortiums.
This cooperation includes:
preparing bibliographic records’ formats for various types of documents,

preparing training materials,
exchange of bibliographic records,
creating and allowing access to databases – authority files and Central Catalogue of
Journal Titles.

3. International Level: Here, Cooperation is among different libraries and Governments
around the world in different ways. This helps in knowledge transfer around the world
and facilitates learning of Cultural experiences around the world.

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