German - North American Resources Partnership

News GNARP meetings at ALA Annual Meeting 2008 in Anaheim, CA FOCUS Newsletter, Spring 2008 (German Resources issue) Minutes from GNARP meeting at Bibliothekskongress in Leipzig March 20, 2007 "The World According to GNARP: Prospects for Transatlantic Library Partnership in the Digital Age" conference at the Frankfurt Book Fair, Oct. 5-7, 2006

The German-North American Resources Partnership is a long-term project focusing on improving the effective acquisition, sharing, and use of German-language materials among North American libraries, in addition to fostering closer collaboration with German research libraries.

GNARP is organized into four working groups:

The goals of all four groups, which are composed of librarians from participating institutions, is to make full use of new technologies in exploring and developing the means for effective collaboration and resource sharing. The action agenda includes creating a formal system of document delivery between German and North American libraries, harmonizing cataloging rules, coordinating standards for metadata development, providing collection development tools, fostering collaborative digital library projects, and providing knowledge resources through studies and reports pertinent to national-level collection development practices.

Project Chair: James Niessen [niessen at rci.rutgers.edu], Rutgers University

For questions on CRL administration of GNARP, contact Judy Eckoff Alspach.

 

Link to GNARP workspace http://workspace.crl.edu
This is the password-protected wiki workspace for GNARP members.

Last updated May 6, 2008