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From Monopoly to Competition: The Changing Library Network Scene.
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1979
Our task in the next decade is to keep the bibliographic utilities and regional networks or service centers lean and flexible and responsive to the needs and desires of the libraries that created and support them. It will not be easy, but healthy competition may help. (Author)
Descriptors: Competition, Cooperation, Library Networks, Opinions
Library Automation: Changing Patterns and New Directions
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1976
The dominant thrust of the 1980's may be the development of cost-effective in-house library minicomputer processing and catalog access systems capable of interfacing synergistically with an effective national library network for sharing bibliographical data and library resources. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: Computers, Costs, Futures (of Society), Library Administration
Libraries and Networks in Transition: Problems and Prospects for the 1980's.
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1981
Discusses the possible effects of library automation and networking on standards of catalog accuracy, catalog maintenance, circulation control, and other processes, and describes the mission of the Research Libraries Group (RLG), a consortium of 25 research libraries. (FM)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Library Automation, Library Networks
Resource Sharing in a Network Environment.
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1980
Stresses the importance of individual library autonomy in the growth of networks and resource sharing. Because network environment is expanding to meet the demands of interlibrary loans, fees are viewed as necessary. Also emphasized are the dangers of giving government a controlling role in building a resource network. (SW)
Descriptors: Government Role, Interlibrary Loans, Library Cooperation, Library Networks
Austerity, Technology, and Resource Sharing: Research Libraries Face the Future
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1975
In a new era of austerity in academic libraries, more realistic concepts of collection building will have to be adopted and new patterns of service will have to be devised. (Author/PF)
Descriptors: College Libraries, Copyrights, Interlibrary Loans, Library Acquisition
Research Libraries Enter the Information Age: The 1979 Richard Rogers Bowker Memorial Lecture.
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1979
Discusses strategies for research libraries to meet current demands and limitations through networks and resource sharing. Explored in terms of their importance to research library development are OCLC, the Research Libraries Group and their networks, the concept of a central resources pool, and the impact of the information industry. (SW)
Descriptors: Information Needs, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Role
Library Automation and Networking: Perspectives on Three Decades.
De Gennaro, Richard – Library Journal, 1983
Presents overview of three decades of library automation: the 1960s, dominated by primitive local systems; the 1970s, dominated by large multitype and multipurpose networks; and the 1980s, which will be dominated by a return to local systems. Bibliographic utilities and library networks and cooperation are noted. Twenty-one references are listed.…
Descriptors: Decentralization, Information Systems, Library Automation, Library Cooperation