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Hawks, Carol Pitts – Public-Access Computer Systems Review, 1995
Discusses the implementation of the OhioLINK (Ohio Library and Information Network) system, an integrated library system linking 23 public and private academic institutions and the Ohio State Library. Topics include a history of OhioLINK; organizational structure; decision-making procedures; public relations strategies; cooperative circulation;…
Descriptors: Consortia, Databases, Integrated Library Systems, Library Administration
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Smith, Mary K.; And Others – Public Libraries, 1986
The Interlibrary Cooperation Committee of the Public Library Association researched the literature to study trends in library networking over the last two decades, including increased cooperation among different types of libraries and legislation supporting this trend. Changes found are reported in two articles covering technology, governance,…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Utilities, Financial Support, Governance, History
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Haak, John; And Others – Journal of Library Administration, 1995
Gives an historical explanation of Hawaii's Telecommunications and Information Act of 1988. Examines Hawaii's economic development and the formation of an information industry infrastructure using the University of Hawaii's library resources and networks of libraries throughout the state to provide statewide access to information. A time line…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Economic Development, Higher Education
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Kaegbein, Paul – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1987
Describes a program of national collection building designed to provide universal availability of publications in the Federal Republic of Germany in the context of historical traditions, the development of a cooperative acquisition program, financial support, and methodological aspects of the system. (CLB)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Developed Nations, Financial Support, Foreign Countries
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Dominguez, Patricia Buck; Swindler, Luke – College and Research Libraries, 1993
Provides a case study from the 1930s to the present of cooperative collection development at the Research Triangle university libraries (North Carolina). The rationale and principles for successful cooperation, types of cooperation that work best for different subjects and kinds of materials, and factors that promote long-term cooperation are…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Area Studies, Cooperative Planning, Financial Support
Lee, Hwa-Wei – 1989
Three decades of applications of information technology and library automation at Ohio University are chronicled in this paper. The first major development highlighted is the founding of OCLC (the Ohio College Library Center) as a cooperative cataloging device in the 1960s. OCLC's growth is traced from when it was a small organization of two staff…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Software, Higher Education, Integrated Library Systems