1st Edition

The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues

By Yem S Fong, Suzanne M Ward Copyright 2004
156 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

Keep up-to-date with the latest in innovative electronic information services! The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues focuses on the effects and challenges of providing electronic resources for libraries. The authors are librarians and other professionals with practical experience in current issues and developing trends. With this book, you... Read more
  • Introduction (Yem S. Fong and Suzanne M. Ward)
  • Multi-Type Statewide Resource Sharing: The Colorado SWIFT Experience (Brenda K. Bailey-Hainer)
  • Major Copyright Issues in Academic Libraries: Legal Implications of a Digital Environment (Donna L. Ferullo)
  • Licensed to ILL: A Beginning Guide to Negotiating E-Resources Licenses to Permit Resource Sharing (Jeffrey C. Carrico and Kathleen L. Smalldon)
  • Open Source Software and Resource Sharing (Jeff A. Steely)
  • From Web Server to Portal: One Library’s Experience with Open Source Software (Robert H. McDonald and Catherine M. Jannik)
  • Recent Developments in Standards for Resource Sharing (Julie Blume Nye)
  • When Terrabytes Meet Terra Firma: Scholarly Information Digitization and Distribution (Thomas Bacher)
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Yem S. Fong, MLS, is an Associate Professor and Faculty Director, Electronic Resources Development and Information Delivery at the University of Colorado Libraries, Boulder. She has been engaged in library management and resource sharing for over twenty years, and is the author of numerous articles on interlibrary loan, fee-based services, and Asian American women’s studies. She is active in state and national committees. Suzanne M. Ward, AMLS, MA, is Head of Access Services at the Purdue University Libraries in West Lafayette, Indiana. She has written extensively about managing library fee-based information services and about library resource sharing issues.