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The Real Costs and Financial Challenges of Library Networking: Part 2

Shaughnessy, Thomas W.

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Title
The Real Costs and Financial Challenges of Library Networking: Part 2
Author(s)
Shaughnessy, Thomas W.
Issue Date
1991
Keyword(s)
  • Research libraries --United States --Automation
  • Library information networks --United States
Abstract
The development of the virtual electronic library and the resulting shift in emphasis from ownership to access raise questions about the responsibility for local collection development. However, access depends on ownership; a network does not create new resources, it facilitates the sharing of existing resources. This sharing has resulted in burdensome levels of interlibrary loan activity. In addition to the financial costs that result from this activity, convenience costs to local users at the lending library and increased preservation costs must be considered. Finally, research libraries will not only be measured by ownership statistics but by access criteria as well, and they will also have to deal with the politics of virtual libraries and networking.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (28th : 1991)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1991.

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1991: Networks, open access, and virtual libraries : implications for the research library PRIMARY
28th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1991). Edited by Brett Sutton and Charles H. Davis.