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Keeping the Window of Opportunity Open for the Private Sector

Rush, James E.

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Title
Keeping the Window of Opportunity Open for the Private Sector
Author(s)
Rush, James E.
Issue Date
1991
Keyword(s)
  • Research libraries --United States --Automation
  • Library information networks --United States
Abstract
If libraries are to grow in the coming years, they must redefine the services offered, the clientele served, and the mechanisms for financing operations. Through existing regional telecommunication networks and the proposed National Research and Education Network (NREN), libraries can de-emphasize physical collections and become virtual libraries, providing global access to information not only to their traditional clientele but to business and industry as well. By serving the private sector, libraries can contribute to the economic growth of society; however, by charging for these information services, they may do so on a profitable basis. PALINET is developing a program that will enable its members to deliver fee-based services to business and industry; this program could serve as a model for services that would be available on a national network.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (28th : 1991)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. 1991.

Owning Collections

1991: Networks, open access, and virtual libraries : implications for the research library PRIMARY
28th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1991). Edited by Brett Sutton and Charles H. Davis.