Design and maintain document delivery services that are ideal for academic patrons
In Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you'll visit four university library systems to discover the considerations and challenges each library faced in bringing document delivery to its clientele. This book examines the questions about document delivery that are most pressing in the profession of library science. Despite their own unique experiences, you'll find common practices among all four--including planning, implementation of service, and evaluation of either user satisfaction and/or...

Here is one of the first books to focus on the Internet's impact on library services. Libraries have evolved over many years and contain traditions of organization. The Internet---disorganized, fluid, mutative--challenges the logic of the librarian. How responsive are librarians to the Internet? How do they use it? What are their interests? What does the Internet mean to their world? Librarians on the Internet addresses many questions such as these and provides a snapshot of librarians'work with the Internet.

Authors from around the United States and Canada discuss many aspects of...