The IDS Project: promoting library excellence through community and technology
Abstract
Purpose
This paper aims to report on the IDS Project, a volunteer-driven library cooperative known for its technological innovations, to describe how the project has evolved, and to review some of the technological innovations it has spawned and the benefits those innovations have brought to both members and non-members.
Design/methodology/approach
The authors use a case study approach to highlight some of the major accomplishments of the IDS Project.
Findings
Although the IDS Project is typically known for its technological innovations, those innovations are really an outward manifestation of the community of trust and mutual support that members have carefully nurtured from the project ' s beginning.
Originality/value
Readers will gain an understanding of the IDS Project, how its community of trust and support contribute to its ongoing successes, and how that trust and support might be scaled up to benefit the entire resource sharing community.
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Acknowledgements
Received 1 March 2012. Accepted 21 March 2012. Published with the kind permission of IFLA, www.ifla.org/ This paper was originally presented at the IFLA 12th Interlending & Document Supply Conference held in Chicago, 19-21 September 2011.
Citation
Oberlander, C. and Rivenburgh, E. (2012), "The IDS Project: promoting library excellence through community and technology", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 40 No. 2, pp. 76-80. https://doi.org/10.1108/02641611211239533
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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