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The Real Costs and Financial Challenges of Library Networking: Part 3

Studer, William J.

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Title
The Real Costs and Financial Challenges of Library Networking: Part 3
Author(s)
Studer, William J.
Issue Date
1991
Keyword(s)
  • Research libraries --United States --Automation
  • Library information networks --United States
Abstract
The development of electronic networks is seen by some as a way to lower the high costs associated with collecting, maintaining, and storing traditional print-based library material. In reality, at least for the near future, libraries will be faced with double costs associated with the storage of dual formats. Additional costs will also result from the need to inform and train potential users. And as users are exposed to a wider variety of relevant materials held at other libraries, interlibrary loan activity will increase with resulting increased costs associated with staff time, computer equipment and support, and network use. Finally, as a result of increased networking, a structure to coordinate resources and access will have to be developed.
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.

Owning Collections

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.