Co-East Projects: Co-East Plus

Background

Co-East Plus will build on the success of the Co-East partnership, established as a result of DCMS/Wolfson funding, by extending the benefits of Co-East to the broader library and information sector within the East of England. Co-East was the first initiative of its kind to bring together public library services within one region to explore innovative ways of sharing library and information resources. Co-East Plus will be a project with practical and demonstrable outcomes, which will ultimately benefit library users in all sectors within the East of England.

The Co-East Plus project brings together the resources of the library and information sector within the East of England region, including public, FE, HE, and health libraries. Through a local pilot cluster in Norfolk, the project will establish a model for a regional interoperable resource-sharing network which will not only deliver single integrated searching of resources across a range of library catalogues, but will also provide access through electronic interlending protocols. The resources to be delivered by the Plus model will include the British Library's products and services, making them available to a range of potential users.

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