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This document discusses the importance and benefits of library collaboration. It provides definitions of cooperation, collaboration, and deep collaboration. Deep collaboration involves substantial commitment from organizations to achieve common goals through shared authority, responsibility, and resources. Examples of successful library collaborations discussed include the Digital Public Library of America, which provides access to millions of digital items, and Minnesota Reflections, which allows smaller institutions to contribute local history collections. The document suggests that collaboration provides gains in efficiency, services, resources that outweigh the costs and productivity losses of working together. Key factors for successful collaborations include having the right participants, clear goals, adequate resources, and support services. Respondents to a survey note benefits of shared costs, knowledge, resources, and
Deep collaboration mla version
- 1. If you want to go fast, go alone; If you want to go far, go together African Proverb
- 3. Valerie Horton Minitex “The history of library cooperation is as long as the history of ‘professional ‘librarianship in America…” Adrian Alexander
- 4. Cooperation: “a situation in which people work together to do something” Merriam-Webster Collaboration: “to work with another person or group in order to achieve or do something” Merriam-Webster “Collaboration is seen as requiring greater levels of engagement and goal alignment” Wheeler & Hilton
- 5. We are in the Library AGE of: scarce resources fierce competition complex communities Rebecca Gajda, librarian
- 6. “Libraries have a choice, we can collaborate or we can die!” William Jordan, librarian Libraries
- 7. "The depth of your success rests upon the depth of your collaboration." John Helmer, librarian
- 8. “I despise puny visions Library collaborations aren't about 5% discounts” Stephen Abram, librarian
- 9. No single library -- no matter the size -- can compete alone in today’s marketplace Gary Lawrence
- 10. Great Ideas Don’t Appear in Isolation – Bill Gates
- 11. “Innovation is LESS an attribute of the exceptional individual and more an emergent property that bubbles up within communities of people solving problems together” Steven Johnson “Where Good Ideas Come From” TED Talk
- 13. Why do collaborations fail?
- 15. Resources Staff Training Time Commitment Shared Vision or Goals Leadership
- 16. Resource Staff Training Time Commitment Shared Vision or Goals Leadership
- 19. Deep Collaboration is two or more people or organizations contributing substantial levels of personal or organizational commitment, including shared authority, joint responsibility, and robust resources allocation, to achieve a common or mutually- beneficial goal. Modified from the Ohio State University Libraries’ Collaboration Task Force, 2008
- 20. Deep Collaboration is two or more people or organizations contributing substantial levels of personal or organizational commitment, including shared authority, joint responsibility, and robust resources allocation, to achieve a common or mutually- beneficial goal. Modified from the Ohio State University Libraries’ Collaboration Task Force,
- 21. “Two or more public entities agree to create another legal entity or establish a joint approach to work on a common problem, fund a project, or act as a representative body for a specific activity” Handshake MOU Legal Contract Merged Functions or Organizations
- 22. “… to understand that control can only be achieved with a shared responsibility” Yehuda Berg
- 24. low investment / low reward Contact Cooperation Collaboration Convergence high investment / high reward -- Gunter Waibel
- 27. Collection Development Acquisitions Cataloging Digital assets E-resources Digital preservation Systems
- 28. 2008, Open Source Developed by academic libraries Kauli Foundation & Mellon grants Partners pay $80k-$100K Partner must agree to develop the software
- 29. Partnership 90 organizations (UMN) Not going it alone… Mission: “…Collecting, organizing, preserving, communicating, and sharing the record of human knowledge” About 11,000,000 volumes & growing
- 30. DP.LA Warehouse of metadata collected from many partners (1,200 partners) “… offers a single point of access to millions of items—photographs, manuscripts, books, sounds, moving images, and more—from libraries, archives, and museums around the United States.”
- 31. 1. A portal that delivers students, teachers, scholars, and the public to incredible resources 2. An advocate for a strong public option in the twenty-first century 3. A platform that enables new and transformative uses of our digitized cultural heritage
- 35. Minnesota Reflections Contributing Organizations County Historical Societies – 49 Academic Libraries – 22 Area Historical Societies – 18 Other – 14 Religious Organizations – 13 Government Agencies – 12 Public Libraries – 6 Museums – 6 Non-profits with archives – 5 Specialty Archives – 3
- 38. How can we get people to collaborate more?
- 39. Gains in efficiency, services, or resources + Cost not to improve - Productivity lost working with others Value of Collaboration
- 41. Well-managed conflict, focusing on objectives, generates creativity “Six Common Misperceptions about Teamwork” R. Hackman, HBR Onpoint, Spring 2014
- 42. The longer team members stay together, the better they do
- 43. Small teams are more effective and less frustrating Ringlemann Effect – Individual efforts diminish as team size increase
- 44. Bring team members together periodically
- 45. 1. Right group at the table 2. Clear statement of what success looks like 3. Adequate resources 4. Support services
- 48. Respondents say: 68% academic 71% say the Collaborative Culture is either Strong or Adequate in the region 100% are collaborating, and 42% are doing deep collaboration projects
- 49. “Together we can purchase what we could never afford as individual institutions” “Allowed us to offer many technologies and services we otherwise would have been unable to afford” “Shared costs and shared knowledge resources”
- 50. “It’s all about relationship…” “Transparency! Honest sharing of NEEDS of ALL participating libraries…” “Open and honest communication has been key…” “Have a clear view of the road ahead…” “Get everyone involved from the very beginning…” “DO IT! You will get new colleagues and benefits that initially were not anticipated.”
Editor's Notes
- #3: Tell Arctic Survival Story
- #4: Long history of collaboration
- #6: Rebecca Gajda Given these difficult day we
- #7: Turn it positive
- #9: We’ve been going to small – there is something to be gained by going big
- #10: Information explosion Even Harvard is now pushing open source journal, saying they can’t go it alone Gary Lawrence
- #11: https://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20140508125753-32702694-what-i-learned-from-bill-gates As Steven Johnson noted in Where Good Ideas Come From, we tend to incorrectly picture innovation as “eureka moments,” when exceptional individuals, plunged in solitary thought, experience a sudden flash of insight.
- #12: Steven johnson – where good ideas come from
- #14: Old cooperative collection development - 80’s there were a lot of these that failed Because these were light cooperative ventures it was EASY to pull out when the leadership changed
- #16: Leadership change was one of the key problems Light commitment made it easy to get out when things got touch
- #19: Abundant literature on collaboration – deep collaboration however is a NEW term – becoming more common
- #20: NO PUNY Visions
- #22: Leaders have to give up authority – hard to do when the buck stops at your desk
- #23: Doesn’t mean everyone contributes the same amount
- #24: Rubber hits the road
- #28: ONE TECH SERVICES
- #31: WEARHOUSE OF METADATA COLLECTED FROM PARTNERS
- #33: Anyone can join the collaborative and program apps
- #36: CCC newsletter
- #39: Just like Technology
- #41: SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH ON TEAM WORK
- #42: If everyone agrees, you get group think, and critical ideas or problems or information will be missed
- #43: Common misconception that you need a mix of people with new blood – research show experienced teams do better – PILOT plane crash less often with experienced teams Mix – some new thinking
- #44: 4 to 5 is best, but may not give the expertise needed Divide up larger groups into smaller whenever possible