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Spicer, Michael W. – 1972
Increasing demands for more information more quickly has called into serious question the traditionally fragmented nature of library service by creating a need for greater interlibrary cooperation. Libraries have responded to this need by the formation of networks which are nothing more nor less than a formalized tool for interlibrary cooperation.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Information Networks, Library Cooperation
Peer reviewedFatzer, Jill B. – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
Explores the cases of two states, Louisiana and Ohio, which found budget problems to be the occasion for concerted statewide efforts to improve academic library services. Both states ultimately established statewide multipurpose resource-sharing academic library consortia, supported by electronic library networks, as the solutions to their very…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Case Studies, Change Agents


