Work better together with library collaborative networks
Library collaborative networks have the ability to deliver a greater amount of user experiences while enhancing existing operational efficiencies through a stronger and more unified approach. Alma provides a richer integrated experience for users that streamlines collaborative workflows while improving and expanding services, all while reducing operating costs. . Access and share information or resources from any institution within the network with ease.
Library Collaborative Networks
Unify and Expand Digital Resources
Enhance resource access and improve research ability by facilitating user access to resources across your network. Expand collections effortlessly, and offer patrons a way to seamlessly access and integrate across a broader range of available materials in multiple libraries.
library collaborative networks
Read LessFacilitate and Deliver with Library Collective Networks
Help users by delivering accurate resources across multiple libraries. Provide patrons and library staff with an easily accessible collection and a wealth of materials across multiple libraries. Facilitate and promote academic cooperation with cross-institutional borrowing and lending through the highly automated and integrated Resource Sharing network of library collaborative networks available. Diversify your collection without acquiring the additional local costs so often associated with collection management.
Help users by delivering accurate resources across multiple libraries. Provide patrons and library staff with an easily accessible collection and a wealth of materials across multiple libraries. Facilitate and promote academic cooperation with cross-institutional borrowing and lending through the highly automated and integrated digital resource management and a network of library collaborative networks available. Diversify your collection without acquiring the additional local costs so often associated with collection management.
Read LessStreamline and Extend
Provide a more seamless and more efficient delivery experience for patrons and staff by enabling users to request and receive materials from any participating library. Fulfillment through Alma library collaborative networks, or consortia, allows users to have better access to a wider range of resources. This larger pool of resources helps to reduce wait times, and streamlines workflows for library staff.
Centralize and Manage
Centralize resource and metadata management with ease, including batch imports and asset searches, in the Network Zone shared catalog. You can share records and metadata across library collaborative networks to ensure consistency and reduce duplication. This resource sharing helps to eliminate the need for multiple local copies and helps prevent the uneven updating process that multiple copies would entail.
Align and Optimize
Increase your purchasing power by aligning resources when negotiating and purchasing collections, databases, and individual titles. Library collaborative networks centrally-manage workflows, and help staff to consolidate and optimize license and vendor management. Streamline your workflow with increased resource accessibility and patron-driven acquisitions and asset planning.
Administrate and Empower
Centralize the control of resource management policies and library workflows through the Administration Network. Service providers for multiple institutions, integrated consortia, and university library collaborative networks can manage various configuration and administration elements. Manage library resources for all participating institutions in the entire network with ease. Increase workflows and usability by streamlining collaboration and resource sharing.
Share and Report
Share both statistical and trend reports across the Alma network, with full privacy-related regulatory adherence, as library collaborative networks. Cross-institution analytics of KPI metrics help make informed decisions and optimize services – such as asset consolidation, workflows and workload sharing.
Library Collaborative Networks
Unify and Expand Digital Resources
Facilitate and Deliver with Library Collective Networks
Streamline and Extend
Centralize and Manage
Align and Optimize
Administrate and Empower
Share and Report
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