Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development
Examines the new knowledge, skills, and management strategies needed to tackle the special problems of collection development in a hybrid library. Acquisition of digital materials brings hidden costs, which must be compared, in choosing suppliers. Bandwidth, hardware, support, and administration exp...
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| description | Examines the new knowledge, skills, and management strategies needed to tackle the special problems of collection development in a hybrid library. Acquisition of digital materials brings hidden costs, which must be compared, in choosing suppliers. Bandwidth, hardware, support, and administration expenses are not always clearly reflected in budgets. Suppliers require libraries to administer authentication and authorization for licensing purposes. Once systems are in place, changes are difficult and expensive, and integrating electronic resources with one another can be awkward. Hosts' cacheing requirements are difficult to meet when most traffic consists of complex database transactions. Users increasingly demand electronic interfaces that provide personalized, integrated environments available remotely, while the library must continue to provide access to the walk-in user. New developments including standardization of software, improved authentication mechanisms, and new types of licence agreements may soon ease the burden on libraries. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:6588c020-7c78-40af-adae-aaa0fc7297d22022-03-26T18:26:06ZThings You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection DevelopmentJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:6588c020-7c78-40af-adae-aaa0fc7297d2Library & information sciencesOULSOxford University Research Archive - Valet2000Examines the new knowledge, skills, and management strategies needed to tackle the special problems of collection development in a hybrid library. Acquisition of digital materials brings hidden costs, which must be compared, in choosing suppliers. Bandwidth, hardware, support, and administration expenses are not always clearly reflected in budgets. Suppliers require libraries to administer authentication and authorization for licensing purposes. Once systems are in place, changes are difficult and expensive, and integrating electronic resources with one another can be awkward. Hosts' cacheing requirements are difficult to meet when most traffic consists of complex database transactions. Users increasingly demand electronic interfaces that provide personalized, integrated environments available remotely, while the library must continue to provide access to the walk-in user. New developments including standardization of software, improved authentication mechanisms, and new types of licence agreements may soon ease the burden on libraries. |
| spellingShingle | Library & information sciences OULS Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development |
| title | Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development |
| title_full | Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development |
| title_fullStr | Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development |
| title_short | Things You Did Not Want to Know About Hybrid Library Collection Development |
| title_sort | things you did not want to know about hybrid library collection development |
| topic | Library & information sciences OULS |