With Other Minds: Collaboration in a New Environment—A View from the Council on Library and Information Resources

Abstract

Collaboration is essential to realizing the potential of the new digital environment for learning, teaching, and research. Yet successful collaboration often entails organizational changes, political realignments, and rethinking our most basic assumptions and habits. This chapter focuses on CLIR’s current work in fostering collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and professions. It considers these activities in the context of a broader group of emergent collaborative activities that, in aggregate, could support a new and vital digital environment for research, teaching, and the public good. It then discusses a new CLIR activity designed to address the prerequisites for collaboration, and for coherence at scale.

Citation

Henry, C.J. and Smith, K. (2013), "With Other Minds: Collaboration in a New Environment—A View from the Council on Library and Information Resources", Woodsworth, A. and Penniman, W.D. (Ed.) Mergers and Alliances: The Wider View (Advances in Librarianship, Vol. 36), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 63-84. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0065-2830(2013)0000036006