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The Role of State Library Agencies in the Evolving National Information Network
The papers in this proceedings describe similarities and differences in state libraries and examine the state library role in local, regional, and national network development and in the dissemination of information to various client segments. The papers are: (1) "The Commonalities of State Library Agencies" (Barrat Wilkins); (2) "Research/Special Library Model" (Barbara F. Weaver); (3) "Department of Public Instruction Model" (J. Maurice Travillian); (4) "Independent Agency Model" (Richard G. Akeroyd, Jr.); (5) "Executive Branch Model" (Jane Williams); (6) "Statewide Telecommunications Development" (Sara A. Parker); (7) "Statewide Database Development" (James B. Johnson, Jr.); (8) "Multityp...
Database Ownership and Copyright Issues Among Automated Library Networks
This volume uses a social model to analyze issues of database ownership and copyright among automated library networks. It explores the possibility that the barriers to networking regarding database ownership and copyright are not specific to the context of libraries, but are instead part of a larger recurring theme in social groups, organizations, and systems. This social network model is significant because it explains ownership issues as a consequence of the dynamic nature of library network relationships, which have been complicated by environmental forces and a confusion of network roles. The research in this work focuses on the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) decision to copyri...
Management Issues in the Networking Environment
This book, first published in 1988, offers valuable discussions on networking concerns such as governance, planning, economic and legal problems, leadership needs, appropriate products and services, improving the political environment, and more. They address many of the reservations about interlibrary cooperative programs that are privately expressed by some administrators - the need for reliance on other institutions, the loss of autonomy, and the cost, benefits, and feasibility of such commitments. This book's valuable contributions - reflecting the changed environment for library administrators - provide a variety of different perspectives and respond to pertinent management issues.
Oclc 1967:1997
In OCLC 1967--1997: Thirty Years of Furthering Access to the World's Information, you'll see how libraries, librarians, and librarianship have changed dramatically since the late sixties, when OCLC was founded as a nonprofit, membership, computer library service and research organization. You'll also see how far information professionals have come in their common crusade to provide access to the ever-expanding body of information worldwide. OCLC 1967--1997 gives you both a look back and a look forward across thirty years of continuous technological change as OCLC grows from an Ohio network of 54 academic libraries to a global network of 26,000 libraries in 65 countries. Eighteen experienced ...
Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century
Visionary thinkers reflect on key aspects of the contemporary information landscape in Networks and Resource Sharing in the 21st Century. In this thought-provoking volume, contributing authors provide multiple lenses from different industry viewpoints to help readers understand current opportunities and challenges facing information providers and their organizations. These authors provide analysis, propose inventions, cite barriers, and target opportunities, stimulating readers to devise solutions appropriate to their personal situations. The book considers the changing face of resource sharing within the context of a rapidly exploding information landscape, and it investigates critical dime...
A New Governance Structure for OCLC
USA. Report on the need for an expanded business organization structure for the ohio college library center and its role in view of a future national level library network - examines cost factors, central planning initiatives, subsidy possibilities and technological change pressures influencing organizational change, and includes governance and management recommendations. Diagrams.
