Case Study 3

Organic, symbiotic digital collection development

Jennifer A. Johnson and Kristi L. Palmer

Abstract.

One of the critical success factors most evident in this project is cooperation and collaboration on a community-wide scale. While grants and internal resource allocations provided the necessary start-up funds, partnership working enabled the project leaders to lever additional funds from other sources. Success has bred success, with other partners wanting to participate as a result of initial achievement. Care needs to be taken, however, when there is multiple bidding for funds as a partner institution and clarity of role is required in applications.

Keywords

business models

costing models

economic models

financial models

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