...Bob Pymm Sheila   Pantry and Peter   Griffiths . Managing Outsourcing in Library and Information Services . London : Facet Publishing   2004 . 200 pp.   £29.95 soft cover , ISBN: 1856045439 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 --> Outsourcing Libraries...

...Charles Willett Based on a talk given at the ALCTS/CMDS meeting at ALA Midwinter 1998, argues that outsourcing approval plans to vendors creates a prejudice against the alternative press. Business is guided by the interests of corporate America rather than those of providing exposure to all points...

...Patricia D. Wallace States that the recent phenomenon of “total outsourcing”, exemplified by the 1996 contract between the Hawaii State Public Library System and Baker & Taylor, must be seen as unprecedented and worthy of strict scrutiny by the library profession. Gives background on the move...