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Nationwide Library Consortia Life Cycle

Published/Copyright: December 4, 2007
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From the journal Volume 53 Issue 2

Library consortia development processes were examined from an ecological approach, combining historical perspective, dynamic developmental approach, and social structure, stressing the issues of permeable boundaries in library consortia and the manifestation of inter-organization relationships. A comparative analysis of several nationwide consortia (from Australia, Brazil, China, Israel, Italy, Micronesia, Spain and the U.K.) using six criteria enables delineation of a developmental pattern. Additional support for the model is based on a study of U.S. statewide consortia conducted by Potter in 1997. A four-stage life cycle sequence is outlined: embryonic, early development, development, and maturation. In addition, the ecological approach stresses founding and disbanding processes, suggesting disbanding as a fifth stage. The contribution of this paper to developmental theories at other levels of analysis (individual, group, organization) is in proposal of an inter-organizational life cycle model.

Pnina Shachaf is Doctoral Student. School of Information and Library Science, CB# 3360, 100 Manning Hall, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3360, U.S.A. Tel: 919-966-3589. E-mail: .
Received: 2002-05-28
Received: 2002-09-26
Accepted: 2002-11-21
Published Online: 2007-12-04
Published in Print: 2003-June

© 2003 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2003.94

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Libraries and Distance Education – a German View
  2. Using Distance Education to Internationalize Library and Information Science Scholarship
  3. Nationwide Library Consortia Life Cycle
  4. Cooperation in Context: Library Developments in Central and Eastern Europe
  5. Design and Development of an Academic Portal
  6. The Development of Digital Libraries in South Korea
  7. Durning-Lawrence Online: Benefits of a Retrospective Catalogue Conversion Project
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