Sponsorship/Partnership

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Sponsorship/Partnership

• Management presentation
• Group V
• Greg Bennett, Josie Crimp, Natasha Held, Karolina
  Stolarska, Helen Wade

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Partnership

• affiliation, assistance, association, band,
• body, brotherhood, business, cahoots, cartel,
• chumminess, clique, club, combination, combine,
• community, companionship, company,
• conglomerate, conjunction, connection,
• consociation, cooperation, cooperative,
  corporation,
• coterie, crew, faction, fellowship, firm,
  fraternity,
• friendship, gang, help, hookup, house, interest,
• joining, lodge, mob, organization, ownership,
  party,
• ring, sharing, society, tie-up, togetherness,
  union

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Programme

• Background and introduction
• Same-sector partnerships
• Cross-sector partnerships
• Cross-domain partnerships
• Agencies aiding partnerships
• Conclusions

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Background

• Long history of LIS cooperation
• Change top-down management, external funding
• Little cross-sectoral/cross-domain partnership?

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Why Work in Partnership?

• Overall better service if not savings
• Mutual support
• Generate new ideas

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Building a Partnership

• Start small, evolve
• Anticipate potential logistical barriers
• Consider indirect costs and benefits
• Ideal size of partnership

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Same Sector Partnerships

• Pooling like-with-like
• National and local level partnerships
• Sharing and making accessible resources,
  collections and expertise
• Union and cross catalogues
• Electronic partnerships discussion lists and
  gateways
• Professional development
• Standards/policies/procedures
• Peer library comparison and venue sharing

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Case Studies

• Art Libraries
• ARLIS and LCHA
• Academic Libraries
• M25 Consortium

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ARLIS

• Arts Libraries Society/UK and Ireland
• Directories
• Periodical Union list
• ARLIS Link Discussion list
• ARLIS Newsletter, Arts Libraries Journal
• Disposal Policy
• Cataloguing Classification Committee
• Peer Library visits in UK Abroad
• Conferences

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LCHA

• London Committee for the History of Art
• Local level
• Co-operative acquisitions
• Networking
• LALIC, SVAG, etc ...

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M25 Consortium
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M25 Consortium

• Academic libraries in the M25 area
• Provides link to all member catalogues through
  website
• CPD25 (continuing professional development group)
• Scheme for mutual support in case of disasters

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Cross Sector Partnerships

• Both strategic and practical
• Common purposes
• Joint implementation of policies
• Exchange of information
• Electronic resource provision

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Case Studies

• The British Library
• School libraries with public libraries
• School libraries with FE/HE libraries

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The British Library
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The British Library

• Aiming to bridge the gap between museums,
  libraries and archives
• Digitisation and content creation
• Reaching the Regions initiative
• Strong collaboration with public library networks

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School Libraries

• Partnership with public libraries
• School visits
• Coordinating reader development
• Study support initiatives

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School libraries

• Partnerships with FE/HE Libraries
• Shared catalogue access
• Coordinated approach to information literacy
  development
• Promotion of further education

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Cross Domain Partnerships
Corporate Sponsorship
Libraries have to understand that their good
name, their good reputation in the community, is
worth money.
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Benefits

• Cash
• Kit
• Customers

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Concerns

• Negative association
• Insistence on recognition
• Loss of usual funding
• Higher expectations

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Recommendations

• A library should
• Demonstrate that sponsors further the librarys
  mission
• Safeguard equality of access to library services
• Protect the principle of intellectual freedom
• Ensure the confidentiality of user records
• Be sensitive to the local political and social
  climate

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Agencies Aiding Partnerships

• A type of cross-sector partnership
• National agencies
• The Reading Agency
• Ask a Librarian
• CILIP awards

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Agencies Aiding Partnerships
Regional agency boundaries

• Regional Agencies
• Regional Development Agency Act 1998
• eg LLDA
• eg SWMLAC

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South West Museums Libraries and Archives Council
Funding Database
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Conclusion

• Successful partnerships
• Appropriate partners common vision
• Responsibility trust
• Communication
• Evaluation processes

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Sustaining a Partnership

• Formal organisational structure
• Principles not persons
• Financial contracts
• Ongoing support

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Disadvantages?

• Regional, local or national?
• Costs of consortia
• Time/resource commitments

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The Future of Partnerships

• Customer-focused
• Technology
• Government policy

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As well as being an essential fact of life,
partnerships can be enjoyable experiences
broadening partners experience, enabling them to
discover more about varied institutions and
agencies, and providing allies who can assist the
library to achieve its objectives.