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This excerpt from "Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views" discusses the different views on document delivery among librarians. The article discusses how different factors, such as budget and user needs, can impact the way libraries deliver documents. It also discusses how the relationship between faculty and library administration can impact the delivery of documents.
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Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you'll travel to four different university libraries-Miami (Oxford, Ohio), Colorado at Denver, Montana at Missoula, and Purdue-and discover which questions and developments in document delivery are most pressing in the profession of library science. You'll see why you can't forget the "invisible" user majority of undergraduate students when considering budget issues and collection development, and you'll also find out how the dynamic relationship between faculty and library administration can impact events such as serials cancellations, alternative access to materials, and the reorganization of libraries to incorporate enhanced services to users.
Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views addresses the paradigm of access versus acquisition. In its compact and accessible chapters, you'll find plenty of information about how document delivery can move to a more integrated place in the library, right alongside full-text databases, Internet access and delivery, interlibrary loan, consortial lending, and reference services. In addition, you'll find useful information and proven methods concerning these topics: - re-engineering library services - restructuring a traditional Interlibrary Loan Department into an Information Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Department (ID/ILL) - criteria for document delivery vendor selection - delivering electronic tables of contents and search strategy outputs to faculty desktops - document delivery in academic fee-based information services. With
Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views you won't see document delivery as simply an acquisitions tool or a necessary service to replace serials, cut costs, and maintain a collection. Instead, this handy and complete volume expands your vision of the role of document delivery in your own library setting and helps you see document delivery for what it is-an enhanced access service that lends greater perspective to library staff and users alike.
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