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Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Wednesday, September 05, 2001

http://www.clir.org/pubs/issues/issues23.html#building

Building a Library Service Network
by Daniel Greenstein and Jerry George

LIBRARIES TYPICALLY THINK of themselves as individual entities, housed in buildings, that provide books, periodicals, and special collections to a patron community within a university or some other organization, or within a state, county, or town. The digital collections that libraries are creating often seem to be add-on services that are valuable, but not integral, to the library's patrons. A different perspective is emerging, however, out of developments in digital technology. Through the Internet, library catalogs and finding aids, as well as digital collections, are now serving patrons throughout the nation....

 


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