Advances in Library Resource Sharing 1990
Published on 1. December 1990
Book
Hardback
175 pages
978-0-88736-490-7 (ISBN)
Description
Published annually, this focuses on the most significant issues relating to library resource sharing. It includes a discussion of access versus warehousing, resource sharing versus collection building, articles on the history of resource sharing, traditional means of resource sharing and case studies. A final section deals with the future of resource sharing and focuses on technological implications, the impact of CD-ROM on resource sharing, document delivery service alternatives, fee versus free, and electronic publishing.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New Jersey
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
annotated bibliography
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-88736-490-7 (9780887364907)
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Content
History of resource sharing; traditional means of resource sharing - interlibrary loan - its past present and future, the Centre for Research Libraries - history, users, perspective, the impact of materials, pricing and library budgets on resource sharing, copyright concerns, resource sharing from the researcher's perspective; case studies - resource sharing in practice - CD-ROM Union Catalogues, telefacsimile networks, consortia - do they work?; the future of resource sharing - technological implications - can we keep up, the impact of CD-ROM on resource sharing, document delivery service alternatives, fee vs free; copyright in the electronic environment, electronic publishing - perspectives of publishers, vendors, librarians and users.