Op/Ed: The Case For Public and Academic Shared Libraries in Connecticut

From an Op/Ed Published by the Connecticut Post:

When the University of Connecticut returned to downtown Hartford in 2017, after 47 years in  West Hartford, the University’s extensive West Hartford undergraduate and graduate school library materials and operations had to follow. In an innovative and highly successful collaborative effort with the City of Hartford, which owns the Hartford Public Library in downtown Hartford  and the independent Hartford Public Library association (HPL) which manages and operates it, the university relocated its West Hartford academic library resources to the Hartford Public Library one block from the restored 1920’s Hartford Times Building whose façade graces the University’s new downtown  facility.

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An overview of how and why this partnership came about may provide insight for other institutions and municipalities interested in creating a shared library.

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