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Coffman, Steve – Searcher, 1999
Examines the Amazon.com online bookstore as a blueprint for designing the world's largest library. Topics include selection; accessibility and convenience; quality of Web sites and search tools; personalized service; library collection development, including interlibrary loan; library catalogs and catalog records; a circulation system; costs;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Records, Bookstores, Costs
Tomaiuolo, Nicholas G. – Searcher, 1999
Examines Web sites that provide bibliographic information useful to librarians as well as to end users, some for free and some that charge fees. Highlights include the possibility of canceling database subscriptions; information quality on free Web databases; retrieval-based comparisons between free and fee-based databases; and document delivery…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Comparative Analysis, Costs, Databases
Heilig, Jean M. – Searcher, 2001
Describes e-global library, the first Internet-based virtual library designed for online students at Jones International University and that has grown into a separately licensable product. Highlights include marketing to other academic libraries, both online and traditional; fees; the e-global library model; collection development policies;…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Electronic Libraries, Futures (of Society), Higher Education
