Document Delivery in the Electronic Age: Collecting and Service Implications.

Ferguson, Anthony W.

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ERIC Number: EJ536228

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1996

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Document Delivery in the Electronic Age: Collecting and Service Implications.

Ferguson, Anthony W.

Journal of Library Administration, v22 n4 p85-98 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 of ease-of-use and speed factors. (AEF)

Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Document Delivery, Futures (of Society), Information Dissemination, Information Services, Interlibrary Loans, Library Collection Development, Library Funding, Library Services, User Needs (Information)

Publication Type: Reports - Evaluative; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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