In this book, first published in 1998, world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship analyse the problems associated with coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets.
In this book, first published in 1998, world-renowned experts on the subject of contemporary librarianship analyse the problems associated with coping with an ever-expanding knowledge base, given their current economic constraints and budgets. It examines challenging marketplace solutions to problems in the economics of information; economic modelling of investments in information resources at academic institutions; the economics of resource sharing, consortia, and document delivery; and measuring the costs and benefits of distance learning.
1. Information Technology and the Transformation of the University David
P. Roselle
2. Costs and Benefits of Investments in Technology: How Can
Technology Serve the Public Interest? Mario Morino
3. JSTOR and the Economics
of Scholarly Communication William G. Bowen
4. The Economics of Information
Roger Noll
5. The Economics of the Internet and Academia Hal Varian
6. The
Economics of University Investments in Information Resources Michael
McPherson
7. Funding Social Science Data Archiving and Services in the
Networked Environment Richard C. Rockwell
8. Building the Distributed North
American Collection for Foreign Languages Burkart Holzner
9. The Economics of
Resource Sharing, Consortia, and Document Delivery Meredith A. Butler
10. The
Economics of Access versus Ownership: The Costs and Benefits of Access to
Scholarly Articles via Interlibrary Loan and Journal Subscriptions Bruce R.
Kingma
11. Can E-Journals Save Us?: A Publisher's View Lorrin R. Garson
12.
Can E-Journals Save Us?: A Scholar's View James ODonnell
13. Economic
Considerations for Digital Libraries: A Library of Congress Perspective Hiram
L. Davis
14. Cost Centers and Measures in the Networked Information
Value-Chain Paul Evan Peters
15. This Little User Went to Market, This Little
User Stayed Home: What Users, Potential Users, and Nonusers Can Tell Us Ann
P. Bishop
16. Measuring Costs and Benefits of Distance Learning James H. Ryan
17. The Need for Collaboration to Build the Knowledge Infrastructure Richard
P. West
Meredith A. Butler, Bruce R. Kingma
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