...Paul Genoni Research libraries in the UK are considering the development of a highly developed form of collaborative purchasing for print material, the distributed national collection. The distributed national collection may have the potential to deliver benefits to libraries and their users...

... community: purchase of library automation systems, additional personnel, undertaking retrospective cataloguing, establishing CD‐ROM networks, creating Web pages, and supplementing acquisitions (primarily journals) budgets. While such individual funding was useful, it did not really address the huge...