“Just How Are We Going to Satisfy Our Research Customers”

The challenge is how to provide our researchers with ready and unimpeded access to all types of research information, whether it is held on paper or electronically. This has been, of course, the role of research libraries for hundreds of years so why is it a particular challenge at the present time?...

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Main Author: Sir Brian K. Follett
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: openjournals.nl 2001-07-01
Series:Liber Quarterly: The Journal of European Research Libraries
Online Access:https://liberquarterly.eu/article/view/10244
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description The challenge is how to provide our researchers with ready and unimpeded access to all types of research information, whether it is held on paper or electronically. This has been, of course, the role of research libraries for hundreds of years so why is it a particular challenge at the present time? May I suggest that the problems are acute because a number of factors are all occurring at the same time. In this paper I will mention some of these.
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