Building a successful collaboration : Colgate University's collaboration for enhanced learning

Henry Ford once wrote, “Coming to­ gether is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” This month’s article takes a closer look at how one working group composed of librarians and information technologists spent their in­ augural year becoming a true collaborative. How did we build a successful collaboration and what helped to make Although mu it work? In retrospect, the cultural d iffer “Collaboration IQ test” in Betsy Wilson’s inaugural librarians and article helped us to un­ technologists derstand the various fac­ tors underlying our suc­ both organiz cess.1 "collaborativ