Coordinated Collection Development in a Multitype Environment: Promise and Challenge

Abstract

Imagine, if you will, that the year 2010 has arrived, and that many of the wonderful things that librarians worked so hard for in the last half of the twentieth century have come to pass. Libraries of all types, large and small, are linked through a network of automated systems, providing total bibliographic access to the holdings of every library. Better still, patrons now receive items in hours or days through a combination of telefacsimile and ultrafast delivery. To the users, each library has become a gateway to all resources held by all libraries, and library information services are “location transparent,” that is, the patron has little awareness of where a piece of information may in fact have come from—it may be from a library across the street or from one across the country.

Citation

Fiels, K.M. (1985), "Coordinated Collection Development in a Multitype Environment: Promise and Challenge", Collection Building, Vol. 7 No. 2, pp. 26-31. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb023185