Andrew K. Pace, The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet
ISBN: 0838908446 | edition 2003 | PDF | 188 pages | 13 mb
Pace, academic librarian and former Innovative Interfaces employee, explores the complex library-vendor relationships that challenge libraries of all types. Issues addressed include ownership versus access, privacy versus personalized online services, open-sourced versus proprietary databases, commercial versus homegrown, and adaptation of dot-com solutions to library systems.