Final days of module III This unit on collaboration comes between learning how to be a full, social participant in projects

in your work as information professionals. You now have experience working with an interdisciplinary group who collaborating on writing a 1000 word wiki entry. What are your thoughts about this assignment and how it played out for you and your peers? What worked, and what didnt? What would you do differently next time? Here are two interesting collaborative case studies or reports on library, archive and / or museum collaboration: Two librarians, an archivist and 13,000 images: collaborating to create a digital library. Shepherding the LAMs: Archives and Collaboration

In the information professions, some excellent historic examples of cooperation (and collaboration) can be found such as:

Before the web, we created National Union Catalogues & shared cataloguing Historically, the importance of union catalogues and shared records was called resource sharing and 'cooperation' (see http://community.oclc.org/cooperative/) Academic librarians have collaborated with teaching faculty for decades

My views on collaboration are linked to my professional philosophy that libraries are often the centre of their communities, and that information professionals should work towards strengthening linkages in their communities with whatever means they have at their disposal. Naturally, social media plays a big part of that professional commitment. Moving from cooperation to collaboration For a coherent view of starting with cooperation moving to collaboration, I recommend this at-a-glance document published by the American Library Association: From Cooperation to Collaboration.

If you know of other documents, please feel free to share them. Related to the cooperation vs collaboration issue, this is an extremely relevant issue in libraries and archives.