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"Uneasy Lies the Head": Selecting Resources in a Consortial Setting.
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Dannelly, Gay N. – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Selection in a consortial setting is a complex, opportunistic, and often political process requiring an uneasy balance of local needs in conjunction with the group agenda. The issues of the selection and implementation of shared and networked resources, carried out in a comparatively public arena, are discussed. (Author)
Descriptors: Consortia, Information Sources, Library Collection Development, Library Cooperation
Library Consortia and Access to Information: Costs and Cost Justification.
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Simpson, Donald B. – Journal of Library Administration, 1990
Discusses libraries' participation in consortia, cooperatives, or networks to help cope with the financial pressures created by more available materials and less money. Reasons for participating are examined, factors to determine the value of belonging are suggested, cost factors are considered, and cooperative collection development is described.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Consortia, Cost Effectiveness, Costs
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery: Lessons To Be Learned.
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Murphy, Molly; RuppSerrano, Karen – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Interlibrary loan and document delivery services have the potential to provide a wealth of information for collection development librarians. Insights into book and serial needs, departmental emphases, instructional opportunities and distant learning are available from interlibrary loan and document delivery databases, provided librarians are…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Document Delivery, Information Seeking, Information Services
Emerging Patterns of Collection Development in Expanding Resource Sharing, Electronic Information and Network Environment.
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Billings, Harold – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
This special issue contains eight papers from a conference on library collection development and networking issues. Discusses the library's role and the need for new policies; serial costs and recommendations for resource sharing; evaluation of academic periodicals; partnerships and the relationship of vendors and libraries; and models and trends…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Networks, Conferences
Information Technology: New Opportunities--New Problems.
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Woodsworth, Anne; Hoffman, Ellen – Journal of Library Administration, 1988
Discusses issues that must be addressed by universities in order to ensure access to information resources by students and faculty, and possible roles of academic libraries within the electronic environment. Topics covered include the changing face of knowledge, costs of information technology, copyrights, and universities as organizations. (14…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, College Environment, Copyrights
Electronic Technology and Access to Information.
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Downes, Robin N. – Journal of Library Administration, 1990
Discussion of access to information in academic libraries focuses on the effects information technology is having and will continue to have on libraries and on users. Topics discussed include electronic publishing; CD-ROM; cooperative collection development and resource sharing; library networks; internal bibliographic and processing systems;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Electronic Publishing, Full Text Databases