The sidebar: Library outsourcing: A new look

Searcher: Magazine for Database Professionals

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 63-68

  Ebbinghouse, Carol ^a  

^a Western State University   (United States)

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EID: 34748919903     PISSN: 10704795     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
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1. For an excellent history and overview of library outsourcing, see "Guide to Outsourcing in Libraries; Industry Overview" American Library Association, Library Technology Reports (September 1998). On top of the background information it provides specific model RFP (request for proposal) contracts for a variety of services outsourced by libraries. The pecial Library Association has a bibliography on Outsourcing Library ervices for members at http://www.sla.org/content/memberonly/electrinfo/contract.cfm
2. See "The Future of the Law Firm Library," Law Library Journal, vol. 89, 997, pp. 99+
3. ALA "The Impact of Outsourcing and Privatization on ibrary Services and Management" t http://www.ala.org/alaorg/ors/out ourcing/intro.html
4. Go to http://www.247ref.org/ and quot;click" on the owl, "Connect with a ibrarian."
5. Jean M. Heilig, "e-global library: The cademic Campus Library Meets the nternet," Searcher, vol. 6, June 001, pp. 34+.
6. See "The Future of the Law Firm Lirary," ibid., p. 144.
7. See "The Future of the Law Firm Library," ibid., p. 142.
8. See "The Future of the Law Firm Library," ibid., pp. 144-146.
9. For an overview of private, government, county, and public library outsourcing experiences, see "Guide to outsourcing in Libraries; Industry verview," American Library Association, Library Technology Reports September 1998).
10. See press release at http://www.lawlibrary.ucdavis.edu/LAWLIB/Jan99/0 398.html.
11. Fora longer list of services outsourced by companies, see the Outsourcing Institute's site at http://www.outsourcing.com/content.asp?page=01i/articles/ intelligence/oi-top-ten-survey.html&nonav=true
12. See "The Future of the Law Firm Library," ibid. p. 148.
13. Mark Schauerte, "Who's Running the Shop? Staff Roles Expanding at LawFirms," Chicago Lawyer, vol. 8, August 2001. Survey requests went to156 firms in Illinois with 20 or more attorneys; 87 firms responded.
14. See "Outsourcing Issues" at http://www.ala.org/alcts/now/ outsourl.htmlfor pros and cons of outsourcing.
15. See also "Top Ten Outsourcing Survey:The Outsourcing Institute's Annual Survey of Outsourcing End Users" athttp://www.outsourcing.com/ content.asp?page=01i/articles/intelligence/oi-top-ten-survey.html&nonav=true
16. Barbara J. D'Angelo, "Assemblingand Managing Virtual Libraries," Library Technology Reports, vol. 37,no. 5, 2001, pp. 1+.