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Unit 4: Library Cooperation

Acquisition and ordering systems in libraries cover the selection, ordering and accessioning Notes
of items into the library’s collection.

Cataloguing includes the job of describing, recording and displaying details of the holdings
of the library.
Document delivery services can be difficult to provide consistently to a diverse student
and faculty population.
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.

4.5 Keywords

Bibliographic: A bibliography that includes everything published or issued in a subject field
regardless of date of publication.

Budget: A budget is a plan for the near future detailing saving and spending expenditures.
Computerized services: A type of economic activity that is intangible is not stored and does not
result in ownership.

Cooperation: Voluntarily arrangement in which two or more entities engage in a mutually
beneficial exchange instead of competing.
Copyright: Copyright is a form of protection given to the authors or creators of “original works
of authorship,” including literary, dramatic, musical, artistic and other intellectual works.
Library Catalogue: A library catalogue (or library catalogue) is a register of all bibliographic
items found in a library or group of libraries, such as a network of libraries at several locations.

Library Cooperation: Library Cooperation is a reciprocal beneficial sharing of resources;
developed or pre-existing by two or more libraries.
Partnerships: A partnership is an arrangement in which parties agree to cooperate to advance
their mutual interests.
Record: Document that memorializes and provides objective evidence of activities performed,
events occurred, results achieved, or statements made.
Union Catalogues: A union catalogue is a combined library catalogue describing the collections
of a number of libraries.
4.6 Review Questions

1. Define library cooperation.
2. “Cooperation is a long-term effort.” Elucidate.
3. What are the historical perspectives of library cooperation?
4. Discuss the advantages of library cooperation.

5. Explain the barriers in library cooperation.
6. Write brief note on cooperative acquisitions.
7. What is a document delivery service?

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