Shared Services For The Public Library Of New Zealand

One of the areas where I think there could be real potential in a national public library service is in centralisation of some functions, in particular those around stock control. There could be a single cataloguing team, and then a small number of processing and distribution centres. With a single LMS and bibliographic database a centralised [...]

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Looking At Collections For A New Zealand Public Library Service

Returning to my themed posts for this month, I now turn my attention to collections. With the assumption of one LMS there is an expectation of one collection. A national collection however has several issues. Amongst them are these: How do you preserve small special collections? What is to prevent small rural areas loosing there [...]

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Blog Everyday Day of June: June 6 – A LMS For The NZPLS By Michael

In plotting these posts out I have often found myself encroaching from the intended content of one post to another. I have also had difficulties in the order of them. Hopefully they will make sense when the month is up, but in case they don’t I ask that you forgive any rambling repetitions or illogical [...]

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Blog Everyday Day of June: June 2 – The New Zealand Public Library Service By Michael

During the recent exchange on NZ-Libs around the selection of vendors for the Kotui shared LMS initiative, a topic I will probably touch on in one of this month’s posts, Paul Sutherland ended with a throwaway line around developing a collaborative Public library of New Zealand.    The idea of a “National Public Library” or “Public [...]

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