Abstract
Collaboration in the digital domain offers an opportunity to provide enhanced digital services and extended reach to the community. This article adopts a service-oriented perspective through which it considers environmental drivers for digital library collaboration; discusses emergent collaborative partnerships across UK educational institutions, social services, health services, private industry, and cultural sectors; considers associated challenges; and identifies best practices. Existing and potential synergistic relationships are explored across the broader cultural sector-in particular, with the respective processes of libraries, museums, archives, arts and broadcasting organizations comprehensively identified and mapped (commonality), and the relationship to service-oriented architecture highlighted. The degree of digital service collaboration is also explored through an indicative review of Scottish public library websites, encompassing thirty-two regional library networks and including the National Library. Collaboration is found to be evident but limited in the digital domain, with strategic and architectural recommendations made.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 337-359 |
Number of pages | 23 |
Journal | Library Quarterly |
Volume | 82 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2012 |
Keywords
- digital library collaboration
- service-oriented perspective
- enhanced digital services
- environmental drivers
- collaborative partnerships
- best practice
- challenges
- synergistic relationships