Managing technology edited by Robert E. Dugan • The history and development of Academic Library Consortia in the United States: An overview

Journal of Academic Librarianship

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 128-130

  Bostick, Sharon L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

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EID: 0035285569     PISSN: 00991333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0099-1333(00)00185-3     Document Type: Note

References (15)

1. James J. Kopp, "Library consortia and information technology: The past, the present, the promise," Information Technology and Libraries 17 (1998): 7-12.
2. Triangle Research Libraries Network homepage: http://www.trln.org.
3. Diana D. DeLanoy & Carlos A. Cuadra, Directory of Academic Library Consortia (Santa Monica, CA: System Development Corporation, 1972).
4. Ruth J. Patrick Guidelines for Library Cooperation: Development of Academic Library Consortia (Santa Monica, CA: System Development Corporation, 1972). A deeper discussion of this book can be found in Kopp, "Library Consortia and Information Technology," pp. 8-11.
5. Ruth J. Patrick Guidelines for Library Cooperation: Development of Academic Library Consortia (Santa Monica, CA: System Development Corporation, 1972). A deeper discussion of this book can be found in Kopp, "Library Consortia and Information Technology," pp. 8-11.
6. Kopp, "Library Consortia and Information Technology," p. 9.
7. Norman Oder, "Consortia hit critical mass," Library Journal 125 (2000): 48-51.
8. For a description of the Washington Research Library Consortium and its current activities, see Lizanne Payne, "The Washington research library consortium: A real organization for a virtual library," Information Technology and Libraries 17 (1998): 13-17.
9. A fuller description of OhioLINK is available in: William Gray Potter, "Recent trends in Statewide Academic Library Consortia," Library Trends 45 (1997): 416-435.
10. Tom Sanville, "Use levels and new models for consortial purchasing of electronic journals," Library Consortium Management: An International Journal, 1 (3/4)(1999): 47-58. Available: http://www.mcb.co.uk/services/conferen/webforum/mcb-lcm-forum/index.html.
11. Hannah Stevens. "The era of consortia: A primer," PCG Vantage 3 (1998): 2-4.
12. The Boston Library Consortium has embarked on a very large virtual library project, Information on it can be found on its Web page, http://www.blc.org.
13. Barbara McFadden Allen & Arnold Hirshon, "Hanging together to avoid hanging separately: Opportunities for academic libraries and consortia," Information Technology and Libraries 17 (1998): 40.
14. See http://http://www.library.yale.edu/consortia/.
15. From a presentation at the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) meeting, April 14, 2000, Orlando, FL, The Regional Network Alliance and National Aggregations: Today and the Future. The presenters were: Angee Baker, SOLINET, Arnold Hirshon, NELINET, Mary-Alice Lynch, Nylink, and Robert Watkins, Amigos.