Library Consortia and Information Technology: The Past, the Present, the Promise

Information Technology and Libraries

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 7-12

  Kopp, James J ^a  

^a PORTALS   (United States)

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References (35)

1. Bellamy lived from 1850 to 1898. The literature on Bellamy is extensive. You can read about his influence well into the twentieth century in James J. Kopp, "Edward Bellamy and the New Deal: The Revival of Bellamyism in the 1930s," Utopian Studies 4, (1991): 10-16.
2. Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward 2000-1887 (New York: Modern Library, 1951), 129.
3. Bellamy wrote a sequel to Looking Backward entitled Equality, which was published in 1897, a year before his death.
4. "Consortium," Oxford English Dictionary, 2d ed. My search for the first use of the term "library consortium" included examination of the Bibliogaraphy of Library Economy, 1876-1920, the precursor to Library Literature, and then examination of the latter publication since 1921.
5. For a discussion of the history of library cooperation from 1876 to 1976, see David C. Weber, "A Century of Cooperative Programs Among Academic Libraries," College & Research Libraries (1976): 205-21
6. Melvil Dewey, "Library Co-operation," Library Journal 11 (1886): 5-6, 106-07; E.A. Mac, "Co-operation Versus Competition," Library Journal 10 (1885): 55.
7. Melvil Dewey, "Library Co-operation," Library Journal 11 (1886): 5-6, 106-07; E.A. Mac, "Co-operation Versus Competition," Library Journal 10 (1885): 55.
8. G.L. Campbell, "Grouping of Places for Library Purposes," Library Journal 4 (1879): 409-10.
9. "Universal Library. A Plea for Placing Any Desired Book within the Reach of Any Person Wishing to Make Reasonable Use of Same," Public Libraries 10 (1905): 129-32.
10. R. B. Downs, "One for All: A Historical Sketch of Library Cooperation, 1930-1970," in The Library of Tomorrow, A Symposium, ed. Emily Miller Danton (Chicago: American Library Association, 1939): 60-67. Other contributions of note in this intriguing collection of papers include C.E. Rush, "The Librarian of the Future"; J.A. Lowe, "Housing Tomorrow's Library"; and Herbert Putnam, "The Future of the Library of Congress."
11. R. B. Downs, "One for All: A Historical Sketch of Library Cooperation, 1930-1970," in The Library of Tomorrow, A Symposium, ed. Emily Miller Danton (Chicago: American Library Association, 1939): 60-67. Other contributions of note in this intriguing collection of papers include C.E. Rush, "The Librarian of the Future"; J.A. Lowe, "Housing Tomorrow's Library"; and Herbert Putnam, "The Future of the Library of Congress."
12. R. B. Downs, "One for All: A Historical Sketch of Library Cooperation, 1930-1970," in The Library of Tomorrow, A Symposium, ed. Emily Miller Danton (Chicago: American Library Association, 1939): 60-67. Other contributions of note in this intriguing collection of papers include C.E. Rush, "The Librarian of the Future"; J.A. Lowe, "Housing Tomorrow's Library"; and Herbert Putnam, "The Future of the Library of Congress."
13. R. B. Downs, "One for All: A Historical Sketch of Library Cooperation, 1930-1970," in The Library of Tomorrow, A Symposium, ed. Emily Miller Danton (Chicago: American Library Association, 1939): 60-67. Other contributions of note in this intriguing collection of papers include C.E. Rush, "The Librarian of the Future"; J.A. Lowe, "Housing Tomorrow's Library"; and Herbert Putnam, "The Future of the Library of Congress."
14. Ruth J. Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation: Development of Academic Library Consortia (Santa Monica, Calif.: System Development Corporation, 1972): v.
15. Diana D. DeLanoy and Carlos A. Cuadra, Directory of Academic Library Consortia (Santa Monica, Calif.: System Development Corporation, 1972).
16. Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation, 1.
17. The overall SDC study included preliminary surveys sent to 2,600 colleges and universities with 698 returns reflecting consortia membership and some 409 possible academic library consortia. However, using a screening process (Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation, 6, 10), the number of consortia surveyed in the study and included in the Directory was 125.
18. Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation, 2.
19. Patrick notes the work in academic consortia of Lewis D. Patterson, who in this same time period authored several reports on academic consortia including Consortia in American Higher Education, Report 7 (November 1970), ERIC Clearing-house on Higher Education. Patterson also completed his dissertation on this topic at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and edited one of the first newsletters devoted to academic consortia, The Acquainter: An International Newsletter for Academic Consortia.
20. Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation, 3.
21. See, for instance, Fred Glassburner, "Systems Approaches to Consortium Program Development," The Acquainter 3 (April-May 1970): 12-14.
22. Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation, 10-12.
23. Ibid, 30-32.
24. Ibid, 59.
25. Ibid, 71.
26. See William Gray Potter's discussion of Concentric Consortia in his "Recent Trends in Statewide Academic Library Consortia," Library Trends 45 (Winter 1997): 417-18.
27. Patrick, Guidelines for Library Cooperation, 32.
28. Potter, "Recent Trends," 417.
29. Potter examines GALILEO in Georgia, the Louisiana Library Network, OhioLINK, TexShare in Texas, and VIVA in Virginia.
30. I have to note that the lead paper in the Emily Danton edited work cited above, The Library of Tomorrow, is titled "Looking Forward, A Fantasy" by P.P. Keppel. And tying back to Edward Bellamy again, two of the Utopian novels written as a response to his work included Arthur Bird's Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of America in 1999 (1899) and Richard C. Michaelis, Looking Further Forward, An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1890). This does not imply that "looking forward" is always a "fantasy" or a Utopian exercise, but it has been known to be.
31. I have to note that the lead paper in the Emily Danton edited work cited above, The Library of Tomorrow, is titled "Looking Forward, A Fantasy" by P.P. Keppel. And tying back to Edward Bellamy again, two of the Utopian novels written as a response to his work included Arthur Bird's Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of America in 1999 (1899) and Richard C. Michaelis, Looking Further Forward, An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1890). This does not imply that "looking forward" is always a "fantasy" or a Utopian exercise, but it has been known to be.
32. I have to note that the lead paper in the Emily Danton edited work cited above, The Library of Tomorrow, is titled "Looking Forward, A Fantasy" by P.P. Keppel. And tying back to Edward Bellamy again, two of the Utopian novels written as a response to his work included Arthur Bird's Looking Forward: A Dream of the United States of America in 1999 (1899) and Richard C. Michaelis, Looking Further Forward, An Answer to Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy (1890). This does not imply that "looking forward" is always a "fantasy" or a Utopian exercise, but it has been known to be.
33. Alan Charnes, "Consortia and the National Electronic Library," in The National Electronic Libary: A Guide to the Future for Library Managers, ed. Gary M. Pitkin (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1996): 32.
34. Ibid, 30-31.
35. Ibid, 31.