Sister Library Partnership Between Portland State University and Nanjing University

An agreement is to be signed on August 24, 2006, between the State of Oregon, acting by and through the State Board of Higher Education, on behalf of Portland State University Library and Nanjing University Library, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China, regarding establishing a Sister Library relationship between the two libraries.

The purpose of this partnership is to promote information exchange and resource sharing between American and Chinese academic libraries, advance the library profession, and develop friendship between libraries across the world.

We agreed to pursue collaborative activities that are mutually beneficial to both institutions, including facilitating visiting scholar and research cooperation activities where possible, and collaborating in the areas of academic exchange, technology exchange, exchange of library materials, access services, exchange of librarian visits and training, and library research, when possible.