technological revolution that would change the way libraries deliver their services forever. The Internet and, subsequently, the Web …

five large research libraries. Design/methodology/approach – Presents several questions and issues relevant to libraries …

different libraries. Both libraries are challenged by higher costs for serials. Both have cancelled serials. Although very … different, both libraries are moving in the same direction: increasing electronic access; introducing full‐text electronic … journals; and participating in collaborative efforts among libraries to provide access to information. Neither library is a …

interest, and digital libraries, a relatively new area of research. Scholarship is inherently a social process and it is … embedded in a structure of relationships with other scholars, with scholarly societies, and with publishers and libraries … libraries, computer networks and associated changes in pricing, intellectual property policies and contracts, but they do not …

metadata, between publishers and national libraries. The paper argues that in the digital information environment, the role of …