...G.E. Gorman; Rowena Cullen The standard approach adopted in library networking or partnership models is neither developmental nor evolutionary, yet development and evolution are keys to robust, contextually responsive partnerships. Using a set of knowledge models first proposed by Owen and Wiercx...

...James Hurtt Increasingly, publishers are looking to sell through library consortia. The advantages of consortia to publishers include the ability to simplify the sales process, to help publishers increase their market penetration and communication with more libraries, and increase the speed...

...Arnold Hirshon Librarians today are facing increasing demands for services and stable or declining levels of fiscal and human resources. To survive in an environment of escalating expectations, libraries are looking for new answers as to how they can become more nimble and develop effective...

...Tom Sanville The current practices of journal acquisition are grounded in the legacy of a print‐bound world in which each library is an island of access for its own patrons. But with electronic desktop delivery of information, the increased ease of access allows far greater information use than...

...Marilyn Geller; Jan Peterson Libraries Open systems Licensing Archives Customization Information retrieval In Plain Site Marilyn Geller Consultant and Jan Peterson RoweCom Keywords Libraries, Open systems, Licensing, Archives, Customization...

...Michael J. Frasciello; John Richardson Library consortia require automation systems that adequately address the following questions: Can the system support centralized and decentralized server configurations? Does the software’s architecture accommodate changing requirements? Does the system...

...‐effects to the detriment of libraries, publishers and agents. The problem stems from combining the three functions of the consortium (negotiation, access and purchasing) in a single body, the Managing Agent. This can create a monopolistic situation for the future, which may be undesirable from a number...

... how to work together. We are also all under challenge from alternate systems that could bypass us (consider, for example, the recent National Institutes of Health proposal for electronic biomedical refereed archives). Nothing says that either libraries or publishers will survive. However, it is in our...