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Smith, Harold F. – 1979
Although spiraling costs and reduced budgets require that small academic libraries form clusters to share resources and services, consortia and library networks so far have taken only tentative or shallow steps in this direction. Real and meaningful steps can and must be taken to develop joint acquisition policies, effective and timely…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgets, Consortia, Costs
