Libraries and Computing Centers: A Blueprint for Collaboration

Considerable attention has been focused in recent years on the uncertain relationship between academic libraries and campus computing centers. It is commonly assumed by some that one or the other will eventually become dominant on most campuses. This paper argues that the two organizations will continue to have distinct, though closely related, identities for many years. In this context they can best serve their users and institutions by establishing carefully constructed programs of collaboration that recognize both their common links in information science and their historically different missions.