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The Role of Information Technology in Academic Libraries' Resource Sharing in Western China

Ruan, Lian; Zhu, Qiang

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Title
The Role of Information Technology in Academic Libraries' Resource Sharing in Western China
Author(s)
  • Ruan, Lian
  • Zhu, Qiang
Issue Date
2013
Keyword(s)
  • Community Informatics
  • China
  • Academic Libraries
  • Library Resource Sharing
  • Information Technology
Date of Ingest
2013-11-15T20:50:33Z
Abstract
This essay examines the work of China Academic Library and Information System (CALIS), an academic library community that has established resource sharing in a network environment. More specifically, it examines CALIS’s work in the developed Eastern and the underdeveloped Western regions in China and considers how CALIS has used information technology to narrow the gap between academic library communities in these distinct regions. It also attempts to promote professional understanding about academic libraries in China’s Western region, especially around the ways in which these libraries have used information technology and digital databases of local culture to help transform communities across their regions.
Publisher
The Johns Hopkins University Press
ISSN
0024-2594
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
Article
Language
en
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Copyright © 2013 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. This article first appeared in Library Trends, Volume 62, Issue 1, Summer 2013, pages 180-204.

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