Library Cooperation for Social and Cultural Development within the Caribbean area. Alex Richards. 1994

The policy of cooperation has produced efficient results in terms of services, where it has been put to use: bibliographical data basis, collective regional catalog, cooperative purchasing of automation systems for libraries. The choice of cooperation for the Caribbean region and its basement is examined in this paper. It does not appear that the cooperation practice is not as natural and fluent as it is sometimes said; therefore, a thought on the very ways of cooperating is now needed as regarding the stakes, the final aims, the practice and its means, the partnerships, the professionals.