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Peer reviewedAlessi, Dana L. – Journal of Library Administration, 1999
Library book vendors are facing new realities in the 21st century. Changes in continuations, firm order placement, value-added services, approval plans, retrospective collection development, and database creation and maintenance are being effected in an effort to keep current customers and attract new ones. Those changes and the subsequent shift…
Descriptors: Change, Futures (of Society), Information Services, Information Technology
Duberman, Josh – Searcher, 1999
Considers how the role of information specialists is changing and evolving due to the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web. Topics include the impact of new technology, knowledge of information systems and databases, the emergence of new vendors, examples of unique Web sites, and economic factors. (LRW)
Descriptors: Access to Information, Change, Databases, Economic Factors
