My reading corner.   This post is the final entry of three in a series where I go over what I learned from the user research I’ve been doing for Colophon Cards.

In this short piece I argue that library collaboration is very important, so important that it needs to be a more deliberate strategic focus for libraries and the organizations that support them. This is especially so in a network environment, where scale is important in creating efficiencies and impact. Despite this importance, effective collaboration is hard and current arrangements are suboptimal. I discuss various reasons why this is so, and offer some suggestions for how matters might be improved.

New research reveals surprising truths about why some work groups thrive and others falter.

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Video hangout tool, something like appear.in.

Research collaboration now involves significant online communication. But sending files back and forth between collaborators creates redundancy of effort, causes unnecessary delays and, many times,…