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Download full textGilliland-Swetland, Anne J. – 2000
This report examines the experiences and contributions of the archival community--practicing archivists, manuscript curators, archival academics, and policy makers who work to define and promote the social utility of records and to identify, preserve, and provide access to documentary heritage regardless of format. The report addresses how the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Information Management
Peer reviewedShreeves, Edward – Library Trends, 1997
The transition to a digital environment offers new opportunities for cooperative collection development but raises questions about models based on a print environment. Examines assumptions related to cooperative collection development and resource sharing, discusses directions future cooperation in information resources might take, and suggests…
Descriptors: Cooperative Programs, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Information Management
Peer reviewedBlake, Virgil L. P.; Surprenant, Thomas T. – Library Trends, 2000
Focuses on the selection and decision-making aspects of the Edelmen model of collection development. Reviews challenges facing library/information studies education and the place of collection development within that context. Considers implications for the library/information center of the rise of a new class of resources. Suggests that a more…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Information Centers, Information Management, Information Services
Shaw, Suzanne J. – 1989
This document reports the results of a follow-up survey of 34 Association of Research Libraries member libraries which was conducted in 1989 to measure changes that had taken place in the administration of computer files (CF)--previously referred to as machine readable data files--since the original survey in 1984. It is noted that this survey…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Databases, Information Management, Information Retrieval
Hall, Hazel; Russell, Aileen – 1996
Traditional information services provision relies on the planned and logical building of a collection to meet current and future user information needs. This is achieved through the acquisition and discarding of material, which might ideally be based on a regularly reviewed collection development policy statement. The evolution of collection…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Corporate Libraries, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Peer reviewedHawks, Carol Pitts – Information Technology and Libraries, 1988
Discussion of the need for automated library systems to provide management information to aid in decision making focuses on the automatic generation of reports. Examples of management information generated in collection development, acquisitions and serials, cataloging, online catalogs and circulation are described as well as possible uses of this…
Descriptors: Cataloging, Decision Making, Library Acquisition, Library Administration
