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- The idea of seamless access to documents has progressed steadily
in recent years, assisted by emergent technologies and the rapidly
evolving electronic information infrastructure. This broad-ranging
volume provides insights into what is actual and what may eventually
be possible.
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- Arising from a meeting sponsored by the Electronic Libraries
Programme (e-Lib) in the UK, the papers are international in
scope, covering key themes such as: management issues in document
provision, including budgeting, collection development, and conditions
of access; library managers' views on electronic document delivery;
the role of the major players in the sector, such as the British
Library Document Supply Centre and SilverPlatter; the necessary
structures for users to have trouble-free access to document
supply; the ways in which information provision actually relates
to user needs in the academic sector, concentrating on researchers'
working practices and research styles; tools for measuring user
satisfaction or otherwise with interlibrary lending and document
delivery services; the future balance between journal subscriptions
and document services for academic research; the experiences
of operational document delivery systems, such as LAMDA and DocUTrans,
and their evolution from investigatory projects into fully-fledged
services; legal structures and the considerations of copyright;
the implementation of standards for document delivery processes;
and the development of workable interfaces between libraries,
publishers, document suppliers, and other systems.
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- This is essential reading on a central element of contemporary
information services.
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- ISBN 0 947568 76 X
- 1999
- £30.00/US$55.00
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- 'The editors of this work did a masterful job....twenty
five separate papers and reports of discussions from authors
representing several countries, including the
- United States....a practical book for the times in which
- we live.'
- Library and Information Science Annual
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- 'a very useful collection of papers, many of which will
find
- applicability outside of the immediately obvious field
of document delivery.'
- The Electronic Library
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