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Convergence - Breaking down the walls. With university libraries increasingly dependent on the internet, and their work overlapping ever more with remote learning and administration services, the case for converging libraries and IT departments is growing. Tracey Caldwell discovers some signal successes - and failures.
The marriages of IT and library services have not always been happy. Some were forced on unwilling partners, while others seemed like a good idea at the time merely because everyone else was doing it. A few have even ended in tears and divorce.
There is no doubt that most academic libraries have at least considered convergence with the IT services department over the past few years. Those that have ruled it out in the short term on organisational or budgetary grounds may find when they come to revisit the question of whether or not to converge that the goalposts have now moved.
The issue of straightforward convergence between IT and library services is ...
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