摘要：For my first editorial as new co-general editor for Collaborative Librarianship I choose to recon-sider what collaboration means in our new eco-nomic realities. The great recession has fostered change in how libraries collaborate over the past four years. As Tom Sanville of LYRASIS said, “for decades, libraries have developed the means to sometimes overcome and to some-times simply cope with these hard realities. How do they do it? They employ the primary tools of cooperation and collaboration.” What’s changed recently is how we employ this tool. The future of libraries is at stake and collabora-tion is critical countermeasure.
