The Center of Excellence for Academic Services in Jordanian Public Universities: Achievements and Ambitions

EasyChair Preprint 2201

Abstract

In 2000, the Jordanian Government launched a project to improve education in public universities. The libraries were the core target to provide better services for researchers. A consortium was established for this purpose. Now we have one library system for ten universities, one administration, a union catalog, and consortia subscriptions for online e-resources. So, we are not only saving a substantial amount of money annually, we are also providing ample resources and quality services. We consider the Center a story of success that we would like other institutions to have, reaching a consortium of consortia in the Arab world. The presentation sheds light on the Center’s achievements and ambitions. The researcher collected the data for this paper from publishers of databases and also from the archives of the Center of Excellence.

Keyphrases: Consortia, cooperative work, databases subscriptions, library

@booklet{EasyChair:2201,
  author    = {Mohammad Saraireh},
  title     = {The Center of Excellence for Academic Services in Jordanian Public Universities: Achievements and Ambitions},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 2201},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2019}}