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Values of Steel in 30 Days [and] Of the People, for the People: Public Libraries Serve Democracy [and] Who Gets To Use What (And How All That Is Changing)[and] Sex-and-Violence Ratings: What's in Them for Libraries? [and] Can Library Service Survive in a Sea of Change?
Gorman, Michael; Tyckoson, David A.; Jackson, Mary E.; Schmidt, C. James; Baker, Betsy – American Libraries, 2000
These articles address the core values of librarianship, focusing on democracy and public libraries; equity of access to information, including building collections, circulation policies, interlibrary loan, and intellectual property and licensing; intellectual freedom, including rating systems for various media; and library service in the light of…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Democracy, Intellectual Freedom
The North American Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Project: Improving ILL for All Types of Libraries.
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Jackson, Mary E. – Public Libraries, 1994
Provides an overview of the North American Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and Document Delivery Project that was initiated by the Association of Research Libraries to facilitate the delivery of materials to users at manageable costs. Highlights include vendors; management and financial software; standards; library policies; organizational and service…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness
The ARL Scholars Portal Initiative.
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Jackson, Mary E. – Journal of Library Administration, 2002
Describes an initiative of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Scholars Portal Initiative, a three-year collaborative effort which seeks to provide tools for an academic community to have a single point of access on the Web to find high-quality information resources and to deliver the information and related services directly to the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Higher Education, Library Cooperation
Research Collections and Digital Information: Will There Be a Role for Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services?
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Jackson, Mary E. – Journal of Library Administration, 2000
Considers the role of interlibrary loan and document delivery services in support of research collections and digital information. Highlights include current practices; licensing as it relates to interlibrary loan in the digital environment; distance education; the role of consortia; technical infrastructure; and archival retention versus…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Archives, Consortia
Resource Sharing and Document Delivery in the 1990s: Introduction.
Jackson, Mary E. – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1993
Discusses document delivery and resource sharing and their effects on traditional interlibrary loan services. The issue of ownership of versus access to information is considered; alternative sources for document delivery are described, including commercial suppliers, fee-based information suppliers, and full-text databases; and evaluation…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Utilities, Copyrights, Evaluation Criteria
Public Access to Digital Material; A Call to Researchers: Digital Libraries Need Collaboration across Disciplines; Greenstone: Open-Source Digital Library Software; Retrieval Issues for the Colorado Digitization Project's Heritage Database; Report on the 5th European Conference on Digital Libraries, ECDL 2001; Report on the First Joint Conference on Digital Libraries.
Kahle, Brewster; Prelinger, Rick; Jackson, Mary E.; Boyack, Kevin W.; Wylie, Brian N.; Davidson, George S.; Witten, Ian H.; Bainbridge, David; Boddie, Stefan J.; Garrison, William A.; Cunningham, Sally Jo; Borgman, Christine L.; Hessel, Heather – D-Lib Magazine, 2001
These six articles discuss various issues relating to digital libraries. Highlights include public access to digital materials; intellectual property concerns; the need for collaboration across disciplines; Greenstone software for construction and presentation of digital information collections; the Colorado Digitization Project; and conferences…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Computer Software, Conferences, Electronic Libraries