Organization Offering Computerized Services to Libraries Must Choose between Diversifying and Retrenching.

Turner, Judith Axler

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Publication Date: 1988

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Organization Offering Computerized Services to Libraries Must Choose between Diversifying and Retrenching.

Turner, Judith Axler

Chronicle of Higher Education, v34 n43 pA9,12 Jul 6 1988

The Online Computer Library Center, which provides catalogs and interlibrary loan services to most of the nation's libraries, is approaching a financial crossroads and must decide whether to diversify or cut back services. One option would serve academic and research libraries better; the other option would serve public libraries better. (MSE)

Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Computer Oriented Programs, Economic Change, Financial Problems, Higher Education, Library Services, Library Technical Processes, Online Vendors, Organizational Change, Public Libraries, Research Libraries, Retrenchment

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