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SECTION 1: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction (Jeremy Atkinson) SECTION 2: COLLABORATION, UNIVERSITIES AND THEIR LIBRARIES 2. Collaboration and academic libraries:  an overview and literature review (Jeremy Atkinson) 3. Universities, collaboration and competition: a senior manager perspective 4. General chapter on partnership and collaborative working 5. Technology and collaboration SECTION 3: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND INTERNAL COLLABORATION 6. Collaboration within a large library service: librarians working together 7. Collaboration in a converged service 8. Working with faculties and embedding services 9. Working with students 10. Supporting research 11. Working with estates and architects on a new building or refurbishment, e.g. Learning Commons / Information Commons which would also involve collaboration with other support departments  SECTION 4: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND LOCAL AND REGIONAL COLLABORATION 12. A UK librarian reflecting on their external collaboration  13. A non-UK librarian reflecting on their external collaboration 14. Non-UK regional collaboration case study 15. UK regional collaboration case study 16.  Joint use library case study 17. Shared collections SECTION 5: ACADEMIC LIBRARIES AND NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION 18. UK organisation case study 19. Non-UK organisation case study 20. International collaboration case study SECTION 6: REFLECTIONS 21. Reflections (Jeremy Atkinson)