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Governing Library Networks: The Quick and the Dead for the 1990s.
Billings, Harold – Library Journal, 1989
Argues that dissatisfaction with the organizational structure of library networks, combined with advances in electronic information formats and microcomputing, may drive libraries to decentralization and a return to local systems. Changes that networks might adopt to provide an effective network governance structure are discussed. (five…
Descriptors: Administrative Organization, Bibliographic Utilities, Cost Effectiveness, Decentralization