The Changing Landscape For Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, And Legal Issues
by:
Fong, Yem S. (Editor)
Ward, Suzanne M. (Editor)
Publisher:
Haworth Information Press
Published:July 31, 2004
ISBN:0789024411
Format:Paperback
Pages:136
Description:
Tanner Wray, MLS, AHIP, Access Services Manager, McKeldin Library, University of Maryland
The authors explain and demystify many technical concepts in a highly accessible manner...
Product Description:
Keep up-to-date with the latest in
innovative electronic information services!
The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues focuses on the effects and challenges of providing electronic resources for libraries. The authors are
librarians and other professionals with practical experience in current issues and developing trends. With this book, you will learn about technical, legal, and resource sharing developments that will contribute to the future distribution of global
information in libraries.
This book shows how libraries using electronic resources can reduce costs and save transaction time for large and small public libraries as well as academic libraries. It also reveals recent initiatives related to open
source software and core standards for resource sharing and interlibrary loal, such as the Bath profile and the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP). Special features of this timely book include figures, diagrams, references, and Web sites.
This book contains the wisdom and experience of professionals applying electronic resources to:
interlibrary loan systems
copyright and licensing
open source software
international data standards
scholarly publishing
The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources will help you avoid many of the potential pitfalls of managing electronic content in the evolving modern library. This book will help you prepare for a future in which electronic access improves the
range, speed, and quantity of cost-effective information services for patrons and resource-sharing partners.
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