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Written on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Last Updated on Thursday, January 08, 2009
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Chapter 11: Collaborative Efforts
11.1 What’s New
11.2 Partnering with LSCM
11.3 Types of Partnerships
11.4 Who Can Form a Partnership?
11.5 Benefits of Partnering
11.6 Partnership Requirements
11.7 Other Types of Collaboration
11.8 Collaboration among FDLs
11.9 State Plans
11.10 Tips and Lessons Learned
11.11 You Don't Have to...
11.12 Important
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11.2 Partnering with LSCM

The increasing shift toward a more electronic environment has resulted in a possible new role for your depository library: that of partnering with LSCM to increase permanent public access to electronic materials. Formal partnerships can benefit each depository library, the depository community, and LSCM by offering services to help librarians navigate the electronic environment or providing server space to help store electronic materials. Partnerships can develop along various lines, with varying degrees of formality, and at various points in the information life cycle.

Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) partnerships are official agreements between LSCM and one or more parties that may include government, corporate, educational, and other institutions in joint projects that benefit the FDLP.