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Raising the Bar: Book Vendors and the New Realities of Service.
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Alessi, Dana L. – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Library book vendors are facing new realities in the 21st century. Changes in continuations, firm order placement, value-added services, approval plans, retrospective collection development, and database creation and maintenance are being effected in an effort to keep current customers and attract new ones. Those changes and the subsequent shift…
Descriptors: Change, Futures (of Society), Information Services, Information Technology
OCLC in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Krzyzanowski, Rosaly Favero; Imperatriz, Ines Maria de Morais – Journal of Library Administration, 1998
Focuses on academic and research library networking in Latin American and Caribbean countries (LAC), where a high level of library service has been achieved. Discusses the information challenges of the 1980s and 1990s to LAC countries; networking in LAC; Brazilian information services; the University of Sao Paulo integrated library system…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Information Networks
Cooperation Among Research Libraries: The Committee on Institutional Cooperation.
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Shaughnessy, Thomas W. – Journal of Library Administration, 1998
Presents a background on the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) partnership with the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and notes its achievements. Discusses the CIC Center for Library Initiatives; leveraging investments in libraries; maximizing use of information resources; improving delivery of information/library services; the…
Descriptors: Achievement, Cooperative Programs, Electronic Libraries, Information Services
An Ongoing Revolution: Resource Sharing and OCLC.
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Nevins, Kate – Journal of Library Administration, 1998
Discusses early developments in the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) interlibrary loan, including use of OCLC for verification and request transmittal, improved service to patrons, internal cost control, affect on work flow and borrowing patterns. Describes advances in OCLC, including internationalization, electronic information access,…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Information Services, Interlibrary Loans
The University System of Georgia's GALILEO.
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Penson, Merryll – Journal of Library Administration, 1998
The University System of Georgia and the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) built the innovative electronic library GALILEO (GeorgiA LIbrary LEarning Online system). This article describes the cooperation, leadership, and technology that made GALILEO possible; the proposal; planning and implementation; governance; current status; and future…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Cooperative Programs, Electronic Libraries
OCLC in Europe.
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Deschamps, Christine – Journal of Library Administration, 1998
Discusses the early days of the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) in Europe, and developments in its usage. Highlights include negotiations between OCLC and France; retrospective conversion; reorganization and restructuring; the gradual approach to international use of OCLC; problems facing European libraries using OCLC; and benefits. (AEF)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Cataloging, Cooperative Programs
OCLC in Asia Pacific.
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Chang, Min-min – Journal of Library Administration, 1998
Discusses the Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) and the changing Asia Pacific library scene under the broad headings of the three phases of technology innovation. Highlights include WorldCat and the OCLC shared cataloging system; resource sharing and interlibrary loan; enriching OCLC online catalog with Asian collections; and future outlooks.…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Foreign Countries, Information Networks
Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery: Lessons To Be Learned.
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Murphy, Molly; RuppSerrano, Karen – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Interlibrary loan and document delivery services have the potential to provide a wealth of information for collection development librarians. Insights into book and serial needs, departmental emphases, instructional opportunities and distant learning are available from interlibrary loan and document delivery databases, provided librarians are…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Document Delivery, Information Seeking, Information Services
Document Delivery in the Electronic Age: Collecting and Service Implications.
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Ferguson, Anthony W. – Journal of Library Administration, 1996
Examines the role of commercial document delivery. Discusses interlibrary loan (ILL); access versus ownership decision making; degree of use and patron use of commercial document delivery; and use of library materials funds. Concludes that document delivery will not totally replace ownership or ILL, but that it is becoming more important because…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Futures (of Society)