A Success Story of an Academic Library Consortium: ANKOS

Abstract

ANKOS has been very successful in linking academic institutions in Turkey to aneffective and efficient organisation of consortial activities. This is illustrated byfigures provided on its expansion over eighteen years. The paper takes a historicaland descriptive approach to the Anatolian University Libraries Consortium(ANKOS). It aims to describe the goals, fields of activity, organizational structure,functioning and the benefits it provides to Turkish academic libraries. . Theauthors believe that this paper is useful for all academic librarians concerned withconsortium systems, cost sharing, e-resource management, open access (OA),collaboration on national and international scales, and staff exchange, especiallyin the developing world.