Abstract

Three New York State inter-institution cooperative collection development programs are surveyed in this article. There are brief descriptions of the Regional Coordination of Biomedical Information Resources (RECBIR) that involves eighteen libraries and the Albany agreement involving the New York State Library and the University Libraries of the State University of New York at Albany. More detailed information is given on the New York State coordinated academic development program enacted in 1981. The program involves 140 libraries across the state, administered by the nine regions of the Reference and Research Library Resources System. The number of libraries participating in each region varies from a dozen to sixty-five, and in six of the nine regions special and public libraries are involved as well as academic libraries.

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