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Negotiating for computer services: Must the librarian be underdog?

Brady, Ronald W.

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Title
Negotiating for computer services: Must the librarian be underdog?
Author(s)
Brady, Ronald W.
Issue Date
1977
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Negotiation
Date of Ingest
2007-06-30T02:03:36Z
Abstract
Negotiating for computer services is a subject that should not be all that controversial. After all, computer services in many forms have been used for a long time now. Further, I do not feel that the librarian must always be the underdog in negotiating for computer services. During the last several years, I have been involved in negotiating for computing services in various organizational arrangements at several different universities. These arrangements have included many different attempts to plan for, budget, manage, evaluate, upgrade and centralize/decentralize computing services, and each attempt had its own rationale. In reviewing the history of these different organizational strategies, it is clear that, although they are convincing individually, they do not form a cohesive group and thus do not create an overall scheme for all users for all time.
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
Genre of Resource
Conference Paper / Presentation
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.