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Regional network contracts with libraries for OCLC services

Evans, Glyn T.

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Title
Regional network contracts with libraries for OCLC services
Author(s)
Evans, Glyn T.
Issue Date
1977
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Negotiation
  • OCLC
Abstract
THIS PAPER is WRITTEN solely from the viewpoint of providing OCLC services; therefore, unlike the other papers in this clinic, it is barely concerned with the act, or perhaps art, of negotiation. Rather, it deals with the complexities of the fiscal and administrative environment in which regional library networks and their member libraries exist, and the problems of developing a service contract within this environment. Negotiation, in the competitive sense, is seldom a factor here. The library wants the service and the network can provide it; how can it best be done? Before examining the regional network and library contracts, however, the structure of the Ohio College Library Center (OCLC) network should be described.
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.