A Comparative Analysis of Reference Alliances in Domestic and International Library Communities

Reference is one of the basic core services of libraries, and numerous reference alliances have been established in the library community at home and abroad to better promote the service development. Based on the basic objectives and actual scope of work of reference alliances, this paper divides them into three types of literature sharing, librarian sharing, and intelligence sharing, makes a detailed elaboration and comparative analysis of typical alliances of each type, and puts forward thoughts and suggestions for the subsequent development of domestic reference alliances.