Collaborating to compete: the search for new alliances

Neil McLean

Collaborating to compete

the search for new alliances

Neil McLean

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding contribution

Abstract

Librarians and information professionals are now facing a series of complex challenges in order to compete in an electronic networked environment where the user has an ever increasing array of choices in terms of information provision. The old certainties based on, and around, large collections of print items have dissipated over the past decade and the search is on for new ways of doing business. This paper assumes that the repositioning of service goals and management practices is essential for long term survival. The aim, therefore, is to explore the process of repositioning in a service environment where collaboration is essential in order to compete, where strategic alliances with other service industries become a necessity and where library managers have to rethink both the rationale and the mechanisms for collaboration between libraries.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Reference and Information Service Section Conference and Exhibition
Subtitle of host publication	1999 & beyond : partnerships and paradigms
Place of Publication	Paddington, N.S.W.
Publisher	ACMS - Conventions & Exhibitions
Number of pages	7
Publication status	Published - 1999
Event	Reference and Information Service Section Conference and Exhibition - Sydney Duration: 6 Sep 1999 → 8 Sep 1999

Conference

Conference	Reference and Information Service Section Conference and Exhibition
City	Sydney
Period	6/09/99 → 8/09/99

Keywords

librarians
service environment
collaboration

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