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

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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 will learn about technical, legal, and resource sharing developments that will contribute to the future distribution of global information in libraries.

This book shows how libraries using electronic resources can reduce costs and save transaction time for large and small public libraries as well as academic libraries. It also reveals recent initiatives related to open source software and core standards for resource sharing and interlibrary loal, such as the Bath profile and the NISO Circulation Interchange Protocol (NCIP). Special features of this timely book include figures, diagrams, references, and Web sites.

This book contains the wisdom and experience of professionals applying electronic resources to:

• interlibrary loan systems
• copyright and licensing
• open source software
• international data standards
• scholarly publishing

The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources will help you avoid many of the potential pitfalls of managing electronic content in the evolving modern library. This book will help you prepare for a future in which electronic access improves the range, speed, and quantity of cost-effective information services for patrons and resource-sharing partners.

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.