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| Format: | Recurso educativo Open Access |
| Language: | en |
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2020
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| Online Access: | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1272606 |
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- School and Public Library Collaboration: Opportunities for Sharing and Community Connections Moreland, Denise Kammer, Jenna School Libraries Public Libraries Institutional Cooperation School Community Relationship Librarians Shared Resources and Services Library Services School and public librarians both strive to offer resources and services to their communities, often with limited budgets. School and public libraries offer different business hours, diverse resources, different online databases, unique facilities and makerspaces, and varying services. Both also collect materials and provide programming for many of the same patrons. It is well established that collaboration between libraries can connect patrons with more resources and services. Through collaboration, school and public librarians can increase opportunities to serve their patrons, ensuring their services and resources are used fully, which would not be possible while working independently. The end result is better service to the community as a whole. To understand how school and public libraries are collaborating, the authors asked more than twenty school and public librarians in one region of central Missouri about what they do to collaborate with each other. This article presents those findings. The authors found that every librarian they talked to had at least one experience collaborating, partnering, or communicating with the other library in their area. When their experiences of collaboration were examined for patterns and categorized, it was found that all collaborations occurred in three areas: sharing resources, sharing spaces, and sharing programming.