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Direct linkMcMillan, Gail – Resource Sharing & Information Networks, 2004
While university libraries have a long tradition of preserving scholarship, they are less experienced in the technology-dependent and computer networked environment. By taking advantage of current activities and expertise that exist in various parts of the institution, policies and practices can be linked that will engender long-term…
Descriptors: Preservation, Doctoral Dissertations, Research Libraries, Electronic Libraries
Peer reviewedBorgman, Christine L. – Journal of Documentation, 1996
Reports on a survey of 70 research libraries in Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia. Results show that libraries are rapidly acquiring automated processing systems, CD-ROM databases, and connections to computer networks. Discusses specific data on system implementation and network services by country and by type of…
Descriptors: Computer Networks, Databases, Foreign Countries, Information Services
Download full textBrennan, Patricia, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This volume documents two program sessions that reported on the Association of American Universities' (AAU) Research Libraries Project. This project was initiated by the AAU in collaboration with ARL and with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; interim reports from the AAU task forces were presented in October 1993 and have been…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Computer Networks, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedTreadwell, Wendy; Cogswell, James A. – Library Hi Tech, 1994
Presents a model approach to data services in academic research libraries through the Machine Readable Data Center, an information center established at the University of Minnesota to facilitate end-user access to government data files such as the Census. Organizational issues, service issues, and collections issues are addressed; and future plans…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Census Figures, Computer Networks
Association of American Universities, Washington, DC. – 1994
The Association of American Universities (AAU) Research Libraries Project was designed to involve universities in the process of shaping the new electronic environment faced by research libraries. The project has engaged university expertise to develop recommendations for action at the national and institutional levels to assure that the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Area Studies, College Administration
Peer reviewedZhou, Yuan – Library Trends, 1994
Discusses the impact that network technology, electronic publishing, and Internet communication are having on collection development policies in research libraries. Highlights include changes in the research library environment, including financial difficulties; scholarly communication; workstations for material selection; and materials in…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Computer Networks, Computer Software
