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Osburn, Charles B. – College and Research Libraries, 1989
Describes the evolution of the scholarly communication system to its current stage, with special attention paid to the fundamental principles that drive the system. The influences of relevant principles of and advances in librarianship on the structuring and restructuring of the system are demonstrated. (nine references) (CLB)
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Communications, Higher Education, Library Role
Ashcroft, Linda – 2002
Recent government initiatives to combat social exclusion within the United Kingdom have served to place librarians and libraries as prominent players in the movement to providing information over a wider social context. For example, The Peoples Network is a government initiative to connect all public libraries to the information superhighway by…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Foreign Countries, Information Dissemination, Information Science