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Virtually yours : models for managing electronic resources and services : proceedings of the Joint Reference and User Services Association and Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Institute, Chicago, Illinois, October 23-25, 1997 / edited by Peggy Johnson and Bonnie MacEwan.

Title
Virtually yours : models for managing electronic resources and services : proceedings of the Joint Reference and User Services Association and Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Institute, Chicago, Illinois, October 23-25, 1997 / edited by Peggy Johnson and Bonnie MacEwan.
Author
Joint Reference and User Services Association and Association for Library Collections and Technical Services Institute (1997 : Chicago, Ill.)
Publication
Chicago : American Library Association, 1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Johnson, Peggy, 1948-
  • MacEwan, Bonnie
  • Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
  • Reference and User Services Association
Description
xiv, 165 p.; 23 cm.
Summary
Virtually Yours describes the best practices and current strategies for managing electronic resources. Key experts in collection development and acquisitions from academic and public libraries explain what works, what doesn't, and why in selecting, acquiring, and circulating electronic resources and information. Papers from a joint institute held Oct. 23-25, 1997 in Chicago, Ill. Includes bibliographical references and index. Annotation. Key experts in collection development and acquisitions from academic and public libraries describe the best practices and current strategies for selecting, acquiring, and circulating electronic resources and information.
Series Statement
ALCTS papers on library technical services and collections ; no. 8
Uniform Title
ALCTS papers on library technical services and collections no. 8.
Subject
Libraries > United States > Special collections > Electronic information resources
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • Actes de congrès.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-152) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Toward a redefinition of library services / Ross Atkinson -- Seamless information environments and seamless management structures: where are our aspirations leading us? / Eugene L. Wiemers -- Information technologies and educational purposes: an uneasy alliance / John Howe -- Reconceptualizing partnerships / Deanna B. Marcum -- Virtually yours: models for managing electronic resources and services / Bonnie MacEwan -- Assessment: how and why / Gloriana St. Clair -- Libraries: the changing political and economic environment / Kenneth E. Dowlin -- Today and tomorrow: what the digital library really means for collections and services / Clifford Lynch -- Licensing for information resources: creative contracts and the library mission / Kenneth D. Crews -- Licensing: pitfalls and protection for the collections / Karen A. Schmidt -- Legal issues: the negotiator's perspective for getting to the heart of the license / Trisha L. Davis -- Managing new initiatives / Kären N. Nagy -- Learning to cha-cha with change / Peggy Johnson.
ISBN
0838907539
LCCN
^^^98041982^
OCLC
  • 39875171
  • SCSB-10037280
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library