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Why Ireland needs a CONUL union catalogue? Eoin McCarney, UCD Library CONUL Conference, Athlone, June 2 nd 2016

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Why Ireland needs a CONUL union catalogue?

Eoin McCarney,

UCD Library

CONUL Conference, Athlone, June 2nd 2016

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Outline

• Benefits of CONUL union catalogue • A shared vison for the future • Challenges of collaboration

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A shared vision of the future?

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Collaborative….

• Storage

• Collection management

• Digitisation

• Collection development

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“We anticipate that a large part of existing print collections, distributed across many libraries, will move into coordinated or shared management within a few years” Lorcan Dempsey Collection Directions (2014): Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie

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“By 2027, your collections will be mine, and mine will be yours” Caroline Brazier – LIBER 2015

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Challenges of Collaboration

• Workload

• Cost in time and money

• Access, Access, Access

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