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RESOURCE SHARING — A CRITICAL VIEW OF THE LITERATURE

Helen Wheelhouse (Research associate working on a British Library Research and Development Department sponsored project, investigating co‐operation among academic libraries in the East Midlands (COPEMAL) at the Pilkington Library, Loughborough University of Technology.)

Interlending & Document Supply

ISSN: 0264-1615

Article publication date: 1 April 1988

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Abstract

Faced with the obvious impossibility of remaining totally self‐sufficient whilst trying to maintain collections and services in difficult economic times, many librarians have turned to resource sharing as the answer to their problems. This article aims to review the ever growing field of literature on resource sharing in order to try to discover what resource sharing is, what need there is for it, what it is intended or hoped to achieve, what sort of resource sharing plans and schemes have been implemented, and in particular to try to find any evidence in the literature on the real benefits and actual costs involved in resource sharing which could be used as justification for such schemes in comparison with other methods of maximizing access to resources.

Citation

Wheelhouse, H. (1988), "RESOURCE SHARING — A CRITICAL VIEW OF THE LITERATURE", Interlending & Document Supply, Vol. 16 No. 4, pp. 136-143. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb008572

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MCB UP Ltd

Copyright © 1988, MCB UP Limited

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