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Dempsey, Lorcan; Malpas, Constance; Lavoie, Brian – OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., 2014
This article takes a broad view of the evolution of collecting behaviors in a network environment and suggests some future directions based on various simple models. The authors look at the changing dynamics of print collections, at the greater engagement with research and learning behaviors, and at trends in scholarly communication. The goal is…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Services, Users (Information), Library Networks
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Dempsey, Lorcan; Malpas, Constance; Lavoie, Brian – portal: Libraries and the Academy, 2014
This article takes a broad view of the evolution of collecting behaviors in a network environment and suggests some future directions based on various simple models. The authors look at the changing dynamics of print collections, at the greater engagement with research and learning behaviors, and at trends in scholarly communication. The goal is…
Descriptors: Library Materials, Library Development, Library Administration, Investment
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Austin, Brice – Journal of Access Services, 2010
At least since the early 1990s, academic libraries have been merging Circulation and various other related functions into a single department typically labeled "Access Services." In many cases, however, that merger has proven to be administrative rather than functional, with minimal integration of common workflows. This article describes…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Development, Shared Resources and Services, Library Networks
Humphry, John A.; Humphry, James, III – 1970
Two parallel streams of work are the subject of this review: (1) the design of a long-range work program and planning process, and (2) the development of analytical techniques which give information about the use of libraries, new or old, and their service areas. The analytical model of library behavior proved illuminating, but is an area of…
Descriptors: Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Planning, Library Services
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Parker, Thomas F. – College and Research Libraries, 1975
Several models and methods applicable to university library networks are discussed as tools to increase understanding of cause and effect relationships in these complex organizations. Collection of data by unobtrusive measures and display of information by graphic techniques are briefly described. (Author)
Descriptors: Administration, College Libraries, Library Administration, Library Cooperation
Dinka, Tesfaye; Okutcu, Davut – 1970
The major objectives of the study were to produce a storage/transportation model which minimized (1) the cost of storage space for book materials, and (2) cost of transportation for book materials. In minimizing these costs, they are considered in relation to the time required to provide service. The data used in the study include land and…
Descriptors: Administration, Automation, College Libraries, Cost Effectiveness
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Mosher, Paul H.; Pankake, Marcia – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1983
Presents guide intended to aid librarians who are responsible for planning coordinated and cooperative collection development arrangements between libraries and suggests possible contexts, goals, methods, organization, effects, and processes to be investigated while establishing such programs. Benefits, problems, models, preconditions, and…
Descriptors: Consortia, Library Acquisition, Library Cooperation, Library Materials
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Atkinson, Ross W.; And Others – Library Resources and Technical Services, 1986
Three articles on preservation present a theoretical framework for making preservation selection decisions by Atkinson, comments on Atkinson's concepts and possible mechanisms for identifying collections for top priority in microfilming by Child, and results of a Research Libraries Group study of the costs of preservation microfilming by McClung .…
Descriptors: Archives, Cost Estimates, Library Collection Development, Library Collections
Freedman, Maurice J. – Library Journal, 1977
Discusses cataloging problems in public libraries--Library of Congress records, international standards, and cataloging records--and their possible effects on establishing public library networks. A model public library bibliographic network is presented. (KP)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Library Cooperation, Library Networks, Library Standards
New England Board of Higher Education, Wellesley, MA. New England Library Information Network. – 1977
The potential for using a computerized communication system to facilitate resource sharing in New England has been investigated by the staff of the New England Information Network (NELINET). The central purpose of their research was to determine whether a strategy for load leveling of interlibrary loan (ILL) requests could be implemented online as…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Interlibrary Loans, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
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Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – Electronic Library, 1984
Describes framework for library networking which consists of six interdependent dimensions to be used for decision making by libraries: functions to be performed, type of access information, types of materials, products and services, networking configurations, and communications means. Use of a series of cost models describing activities within…
Descriptors: Costs, Decision Making, Library Automation, Library Cooperation
Boston Library Consortium, MA. – 1982
This report describes a 1980/81 project concerned with the formulation and validation of a model for determining whether cancellation and/or consolidation of serial subscriptions and holdings should be recommended to maximize the cost-effective use of combined collections and staff resources in the Boston Library Consortium (BLC). The publication…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Check Lists, Consortia, Feasibility Studies
Griffiths, Jose-Marie; King, Donald W. – 1983
This paper describes a decision making framework for library networking which can be used by individual libraries, groups of cooperating libraries, or centralized services to evaluate current operations and define alternative approaches to automation and networking. It is noted that networking has not yet achieved its full potential because of a…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Networks
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Pond, Kurt; Burlingame, Dwight F. – College and Research Libraries, 1984
Describes experience gained by applying philosophical principles to library serials cooperation between two academic libraries. Philosophical views concerning cooperation; conditions leading to success of the project; serials survey of selected faculty members from English, biology, and economics departments; and proposals based on computer…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Higher Education, Library Cooperation, Library Materials
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McGrath, William E. – Library Trends, 1985
Reviews meaning and theory of library collections and structure and enumerates ways that data on collections can be organized to reveal underlying global structure (links and connections between collections, parts of collections, and users of collections). Definitions of terms applying to eight models described in text are appended. (53…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Library Collection Development, Library Collections, Library Cooperation
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