Facing the crisis: risk of a collapse or new opportunities? The Italian National Health Institute (ISS) Library case study

Toni, Franco Facing the crisis: risk of a collapse or new opportunities? The Italian National Health Institute (ISS) Library case study., 2015 . In 7th QQML 2015 International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Paris, 26-29, May, 2015. (In Press) [Conference paper]

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With the outbreak of the economic crisis, which began 5 years ago, libraries have faced the need to reconsider their role and services. The strong reduction of their budgets, particularly evident (but not only) in the countries of the Mediterranean area, caused a significant decline in terms of performance and available resources for users. This paradigm forced the librarians to redesign their activity in order to find new strategies and solutions that ensure an acceptable quality level of services offered by the library. The speech analyzes the path of the Istituto Superiore di Sanità’s Library (the Italian National Health Institute) for obtaining a rationalization of journals subscriptions, strengthening of cooperation strategies and implementation of new projects and services.

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Research Library, Library Management, Library Services, Crisis, Consortia, Document supply
Subjects: A. Theoretical and general aspects of libraries and information. > AA. Library and information science as a field.
C. Users, literacy and reading.
C. Users, literacy and reading. > CD. User training, promotion, activities, education.
F. Management. > FF. Funding.
F. Management. > FH. Reorganization.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JA. Acquisitions.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JB. Serials management.
J. Technical services in libraries, archives, museum. > JJ. Document delivery.
Depositing user: Franco Toni
Date deposited: 18 Jun 2015 07:22
Last modified: 18 Jun 2015 07:22
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/25316

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