The impact of Italian academic library consortia for full-text electronic resources activities on the job of library staff: a study of Ca’Foscari University branch libraries

Abstract

The activity of academic library consortia in Italy has had noteworthy consequences, one of the main ones being that advantageous deals have made available a massive quantity of information for academic library users. The availability of all these resources has raised many new activities within academic library systems, and it has stimulated libraries to adopt tools to facilitate information towards end users about the presence of these resources. This phenomenon reflects the international situation, where since years the massive advent in the academic libraries of electronic full text resources coming from consortial deals has reinforced the potentials of available information, compelling organizations to find the best way to manage it so that it can reach relevant users, when needed.