Work better together with library collaborative networks
Library collaborative networks can deliver greater user experiences and enhance operational efficiencies through a stronger, more unified approach. Alma provides a richer integrated experience that streamlines collaborative workflows and reduces costs, all while improving and expanding services . Information for resources from any networked institution are easily accessed and shared.
Library Collaborative Networks
Facilitate and Deliver
Help users by delivering accurate and easy access to a wealth of materials across multiple libraries. Facilitate cross-institutional borrowing and lending through the highly automated and integrated Resource Sharing network of collaborative networks. Diversify your collection without additional local collection management costs.
Streamline and Extend
Provide a seamless and efficient delivery experience 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, reduce their wait times, and streamlines workflows for library staff.
Centralize and Manage
Centralize resource and metadata management – including batch imports and asset searches, in the Network Zone shared catalog. You can share records and metadata across collaborative networks to ensure consistency and reduce duplication, eliminating the need for multiple local copies and the uneven updating process that this 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, consolidates and optimizes license and vendor management, resource accessibility, patron-driven acquisitions and asset planning.
Administrate and Empower
Centralize control of resource management policies and workflows through the Administration Network. Service providers for multiple institutions, integrated consortia, and university library collaborative networks can manage various configuration and administration elements for all participating institutions in the entire network, streamlining collaboration and resource sharing.
Share and Report
Share 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
Facilitate and Deliver
Streamline and Extend
Centralize and Manage
Align and Optimize
Administrate and Empower
Share and Report
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