Presentation given by Eoin McCarney, Head of Collection Services, UCD Library, at Annual CONUL Conference in Athlone, Ireland, June 2nd, 2016.

1. Why Ireland needs a CONUL
union catalogue?
Eoin McCarney,
UCD Library
CONUL Conference, Athlone, June 2nd 2016

2. Outline
• Benefits of CONUL union catalogue
• A shared vison for the future
• Challenges of collaboration

11. A shared vision
of the future?

12. Collaborative….
• Storage
• Collection management
• Digitisation
• Collection development

13. “We anticipate that a large part of
existing print collections, distributed
across many libraries, will move into
coordinated or shared management
within a few years”
Lorcan Dempsey
Collection Directions (2014): Lorcan Dempsey, Constance Malpas and Brian Lavoie

14. “By 2027, your collections will be mine,
and mine will be yours”
Caroline Brazier – LIBER 2015

15. Challenges of Collaboration
• Workload
• Cost in time and money
• Access, Access, Access

17. Email: Eoin.McCarney@ucd.ie
Twitter: @eoinmc73
PH: 01-7167575