International Coalition of Library Consortia

Co-South (Reference Task Group)
Co-South RTG
Website: under construction

Brief description

Public libraries consortia, based in the south of England, founder members Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Southampton, Portsmouth, but now including West Sussex and Surrey as full members of the RTG. Activities involve electronic- resource sharing and purchase; joint cataloguing and ILL, and joint periodicals database.

Legal structure

Other: constitutional

Primary functions

• Cataloging services
• Collections sharing
• Electronic content licensing
• Electronic content loading/presentation
• Interlibrary loan/document delivery
• Training
• Union lists/shared online catalogs
• Other: Consortia Purchasing

Number and type of member libraries

6 Public Library Authorities

Additional material/URLs

Main website under construction. Individual sites at:
http://www.hants.gov.uk/library/
http://pal.libr.port.ac.uk/city.html
http://westsussex.gov.uk/librariesandarchives/libraries/index.htm
http://www.surreycc.gov.uk/
http://www.southampton.gov.uk/Libraries/
http://www.iwight.com/library/