Electronic Publications and Library Cooperation: Bulgarian Experience

[1] The situation has not sufficiently changed even today. Bulgaria still has only one library consortium, working mainly because of the efforts of its creators and a few active members.

[2] All data and conclusions in this section were taken from: A Chance for Bulgarian Libraries in XXI Century. Edit, by A. Dimchev. Sofia : OSF, 1999.

[3] The exceptions of the presented picture were the libraries of the American University in Bulgaria and a few of the non-governmental/private universities. But all of them tried to find and follow their own individual way of development without any form of cooperation.

[4] The Open Society Institute (OSI), a private operating and grant making foundation, aims to shape public policy to promote democratic governance, human rights, and economic, legal, and social reform. On local level, OSI implements a range of initiatives to support the rule of law, education, public health, and independent media.

[5] The main goal of eIFL.net is to unite the purchasing power of a large numbers of libraries in poor and developing countries in a global network of national library consortia, and to represent their needs to vendors and producers of information. For more on eIFL.net and its role for libraries cooperation in the country see [6] and [7].

[6] TERZIEVA, N. The eIFL project. In Library Cooperation - Present and Future. Sofia: SBIR, 2003, p. 79-82.

[7] TERZIEVA, N. Bulgarian Libraries Cooperative Initiatives and eIFL.net. In Libraries, Globalization and Cooperation. Ed. by H. Achleitner, A. Dimchev. Sofia: St Kliment Ohridsky Univ. Press, 2005, p.126- 133.

[8] Proposed in general management by John Mee [10] and later adopted by Thomas Waldhart [11] for the needs of academic libraries management.

[9] The distribution is unequal. The library of New Bulgarian University offers almost 100 workstations for its users, while some of the smallest libraries and information departments account only for one or two.

[10] МЕЕ, I. Changing Concepts of Management. S.A.M. Advanced Management Journal, Oct. 1972, vol. 37, p. 22-34.

[11] WALDHART, Т. Implementing Results-Oriented Management in Academic Libraries, The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1978, vol. 4, no. 4, p. 209-213.

[12] TODOROVA, R.; VARBANOVA, K. Full Text On-line Databases in the Structure of Information Services of Academic Library. SBIR at the Begging of XXI Century. Plovdiv: SBIR 2001, p.43-47.

[13] TERZIEVA, N. Academic Libraries and Knowledge Transactions. In Libraries, Civil Society and Social Development. Edits, by 11. Achleitner, A. Dimchev. Sofia: St Kliment Ohridsky Univ. Press, 2004,

p. 206-212.

[14] TODOROVA, R. New Perspectives for Libraries and Their Partners. BIC Yearbook. Sofia: BIC, 2004, p. 22-30.

[15] JOSE, В.; PACIOS, A. The Impact of Consortia Purchasing of Periodical Publications on the Document Supply Service. Emerald lnterlending and Document Supply, 2005, vol. 33, no. 4, p. 189-195.