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Negotiating an automated circulation system: The librarian's viewpoint

Boss, Richard W.

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Title
Negotiating an automated circulation system: The librarian's viewpoint
Author(s)
Boss, Richard W.
Issue Date
1977
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Negotiation
Abstract
I think that it was my experience in a contracts course in law school that convinced me that I should not be a lawyer, but since then I've found that no librarian's work today is entirely free of legal problems. This is just one of the increasing complexities of librarianship that make it challenging and enjoyable. I'm not sure that my courses in law school increased my ability to negotiate for a circulation system. That was confirmed to me when, in preparation for this speech today, I looked at the last contract that we negotiated. In rereading it only a matter of months later, many of the provisions in it seem naive. In the final analysis, it comes down to the fact that no contract can offer absolute protection in all circumstances.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (14th : 1977)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1978.

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1977: Negotiating for Computer Services PRIMARY
14th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1977). Edited by J.L. Divilbiss.