Avoid the pitfalls in consortium planning with this down-to-earth advice!This practical book addresses the specific tasks of planning, organizing, and administering a successful library consortium. Teamwork and Collaboration in Libraries: Tools for Theory and Practice surveys a number of resource-sharing schemes, including digital libraries and cooperative purchasing schemes. Thoughtful analyses discuss the perils and benefits of consortia, and a thorough bibliography reviews the available material on planning a consortium. This comprehensive book provides all the information you will need before undertaking a library collaboration.Teamwork and Collaboration in Libraries: Tools for Theory and Practice presents discussions and case studies of cooperative purchasing and resource-sharing in several library environments, including: within university library systems between libraries with shared special interests between academic and public libraries the proposed national law library consortium