UAE Library Consortium eFADA إفادة

Dr. Abdulla Alhefeiti

Director, Masdar Institute Library

What is eFADA?

eFADA is a consortium of libraries under the umbrella of

Ankabut, with a goal :

to develop a union catalog with delivery of physical

objects among institutions

a repository for archiving and disseminating faculty and

research output

consortium purchasing for e-resources.

Member Institutions - eFADA Pilot

Why Centralizing ?

1. Maximize resources available to all

2. Maximize purchasing power for e-resources

3. Minimize redundant ordering

4. Minimize purchasing of duplicative material that

could be shared instead

5. Minimize maintenance activity locally

6. Shared technical expertise

7. Shared repositories and intellectual output of the

nation

Proposed Consortium Org. Chart

ConsortiumDirector

Board Committee

Technical WG Finance WG Training WGOperation WG

IT

Catalog

System Librarian

Budgeting Help-Desk

TrainingTransport

Procurement

UAE Library Consortium

eFADAإفادة

ResourcesSharing

Document Delivery

Collaborative Repositories

Interlibrary lending

Union catalogauthority file

Collective negotiating for e-

resources

Technology development

Interoperable Library System

IT support/Help Desk

Marketing and advocacy

Training and professional development

We don’t start from scratch

Governing Board

Library Manager

Policies

Procedures

System Librarian

Fund

Finance

Services

Efforts

eFADA Website

Survey on Library Budget May/2012

Only 10

Institutions

answered

to the

Survey~ 93.000.000 Dirham's

-50%

Helped Ayaadi

“Etisalat Fund for

Social

Responsibility” to

negotiate eBooks

and obtained

excellent price (4

times less)

Some Results

National Repositories

With National Research Foundation, Ankabut proposed

the creation of national repositories for different

contents and usage as:

1. Learning Objects (OCW membership)

2. Research activities, Dissertations

3. National online courses

4. Curricula

5. Collaborative Data

6. Computing Research Repository

7. Institutional Repositories

Thank You