Selecting Electronic Alternatives.

Meyer, Richard W.

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Publication Date: 1993

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Selecting Electronic Alternatives.

Meyer, Richard W.

Information Technology and Libraries, v12 n2 p173-80 Jun 1993

Offers a model for choosing among CD-ROM, end user access, mediated online searching, or locally mounted files as alternatives for extending online catalogs and replacing printed indexes. Estimates of demand and comparisons of costs made at Trinity and Clemson Universities provide a quantitative framework for selection. (Contains four references.) (KRN)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Comparative Analysis, Costs, Databases, Evaluation Methods, Higher Education, Indexes, Library Services, Models, Online Catalogs, Online Searching, Online Vendors, Optical Data Disks, Reference Services, Tables (Data), Use Studies

Publication Type: Opinion Papers; Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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