ABSTRACT
In a sense, this entire book celebrates the collaborations of libraries working together in a single global information environment. Other chapters focus either on global library collaborations on a grand scale, such as with regard to library associations, standards, and transborder information flow, or discuss how particular types of libraries and library services function in an international perspective. However, each individual library has opportunities to foster better understanding and share its expertise and knowledge with one another through collaborative activities with a library in another part of the world. Often all it takes is the interest of one librarian to foster these new ties. In other cases, collaboration fits in quite well within the mission of the overall institution. No matter what the case, with the advent of the Internet, new services such as virtual reference, increased access to information and libraries, and the growth of organizations supporting collaborative activities make it easier than ever for libraries to partner with one another across international borders.
