University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Building the Beginnings of a Beautiful Partnership

Sullivan, Kathy; Taylor, Warren; Barrick, Mary Grace; Stelk, Roger

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Title
Building the Beginnings of a Beautiful Partnership
Author(s)
  • Sullivan, Kathy
  • Taylor, Warren
  • Barrick, Mary Grace
  • Stelk, Roger
Issue Date
2006
Keyword(s)
  • Joint use libraries
  • Library cooperation
Abstract
The authors describe the process leading to, and the outcome of, their partnership to build and operate a 76,000 square foot public/ community college joint use library. Located in Westminster, Colorado, the College Hill Library serves a population of approximately 70,000 Westminster residents and 6,000 Front Range Community College faculty and staff. The partnership began in 1994 to investigate the feasibility of building the facility, which opened in April 1998 and continues to be successful today. The authors provide information on the main points of the Intergovernmental Agreement to build and operate the facility and relate their experiences during the planning, construction, and initial year of operation of the library. They discuss issues relating to combining staff, automation systems, and collections as well as special challenges in publicizing the library to the community. An update on the current state of the partnership is provided by the current co-directors of the library.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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http://hdl.handle.net/2142/3653
Copyright and License Information
Copyright 2006 Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.

Owning Collections

Library Trends 54 (4) Spring 2006: Dual Use Libraries PRIMARY
Library Trends 54 (4) Spring 2006: Dual Use Libraries. Edited by Sarah McNicol