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Chaos Breeds Life: Finding Opportunities for Library Advancement during a Period of Collection Schizophrenia.
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Neal, James G. – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Examines the changes that are affecting academic library collection development. Highlights include computer technology; digital information; networking; virtual reality; hypertext; fair use and copyrights; technological infrastructure; digital libraries; information policy; academic and scholarly publishing; and experiences at the Johns Hopkins…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Networks, Electronic Libraries, Higher Education
Collection Development and Professional Ethics.
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Frazier, Kenneth – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Illustrates the ethical dilemmas of library collection development through three specific examples related to scholarly communication, including the ongoing effort by publishers to use licensing contracts to abolish interlibrary loans for information in electronic format. Considers information needs of clients versus optimizing public access to…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Electronic Libraries, Information Needs, Interlibrary Loans
Digital Library Selection: Maximum Access, Not Buying the Best Titles: Libraries Should Become Full-Text Amazon.coms's.
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Ferguson, Anthony W. – Journal of Library Administration, 2000
Discusses new ways of selecting information for digital libraries. Topics include increasing the quantity of information acquired versus item by item selection that is more costly than the value it adds; library-publisher relationships; netLibrary; electronic journals; and the SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition)…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cost Effectiveness, Electronic Journals
By the Dawn's Early Light.
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Wolf, Milton T. – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Discusses the need for cooperative collection development among libraries on a worldwide scale. Considers the relationship between knowledge and power; information needs and telecommunications technologies; economic and political issues; digital libraries; publishing industry; and laws of intellectual property. (LRW)
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Electronic Libraries, Global Approach, Information Needs