In today’s society, collaboration has become the norm in most organizations. Corporate teams from disparate departments work together face-to-face and virtually on common projects to satisfy clients or customers and to benefit the organization. Non-profit agencies work together to pursue funding opportunities and sponsor services for their target communities. Within educational organizations, the formation of standing or ad hoc committees or working groups teaming a variety of practitioners has become a typical strategy for schools, colleges and universities and adult and continuing education organizations in order to collaborate to solve problems and make decisions. Successful collaboration is based on common goals, a shared vision and a climate of trust and mutual respect . To be motivated to collaborate, all participants must first see some personal value in collaboration and believe that they have the knowledge and skills necessary to be successful collaborative partners.
The LIS professionals (both librarians and teaching faculty) and student learners need to build collaborative partnerships through scholarly communication and forums..