Author(s)

Xin Zhou ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ National Library of China, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Xin Zhou

ABSTRACT

Reference is one of the basic core services of libraries, and numerous reference alliances have been established in the library community at home and abroad to better promote the service development. Based on the basic objectives and actual scope of work of reference alliances, this paper divides them into three types of literature sharing, librarian sharing, and intelligence sharing, makes a detailed elaboration and comparative analysis of typical alliances of each type, and puts forward thoughts and suggestions for the subsequent development of domestic reference alliances.

KEYWORDS

Reference alliance, library & information system, collaborative digital reference service, collaborative reference services

CITE THIS PAPER

Xin Zhou, A Comparative Analysis of Reference Alliances in Domestic and International Library Communities. Information and Knowledge Management (2023) Vol. 4: 7-14. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/infkm.2023.040402.

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