Copyright (c) 2013 Purdue University All rights reserved. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers Recent Events in 1996 IATUL Proceedings en-us Wed, 15 May 2013 19:56:15 PDT 3600 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/59 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/59 Matjaz Zaucér http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/58 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/58 Zhen Wu http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/57 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/57 VIcki Williamson http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/56 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/56 Julie Wilcocks http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/55 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/55 In 1993, when the library at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ became the first to stop all journal subscriptions there was fear among the faculty and intrigue in the library community world-wide. Three years later, we can demonstrate an enormous success in changing the library role and perception with its user community. Information delivery, in many ways, is far superior to the warehouse model of the past. The emergence of Web technology has also helped advance the goals of our "electronic library model." We shall outline the steps taken, the positive effect it had on our user community and the questions that have been raised and answered.

]]> Richard Widdicombe http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/54 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/54 At the IATUL Conference in Tallinn in 1992 a report was presented about a new PICA project: RAPDOC. Information was presented about the reasons to start the project, its objectives, finances and project planning as well as information about the underlying interlibrary loan analysis in The Netherlands. The RAPDOC project officially came to an end on October 1, 1995. A project evaluation will be presented as well as the future usage of the obtained results. In the same year when the RAPDOC project came to an end, a new PICA project was launched: the PICA-WEBDOC project. In December 1995 an agreement was signed with RLG for collaboration on this project. The new service will allow end users to search WebCat, a special catalog of bibliographic records (maintained in parallel on both the RLG and PICA host computers, via Web browsers and to retrieve documents linked to them - full text, articles, maps, images etc. - using Web technology. WEBDOC interposes a licensing and accounting server between the catalog record and access to the whole document it describes, to verify that the user is covered by an institutional license or else to debit the users personal account. WEBDOC is designed to provide an environment for end-users access where the rights holders may seek compensation for use of their materials. These include many journal articles and some unusual, high-quality and primary sources collections. RLG and PICA plan to launch WEBDOC as a pilot production project this year, starting in January in the Netherlands and Germany and in September in the United States. PICA has already identified a group of Institutions in the Netherlands that will participate with their end users in the pilot; this year RLG will identify pilot participants from among its members. Both organizations seek cooperation with commercial document suppliers and publishers to participate in the project. PICA recently signed the first contract with a publisher, Kluwer Academic Publishers in Dordredcht, the Netherlands. WEBDOC is the first phase of a broader strategic collaboration planned to achieve streamlined access to documents in paper form as well as digitized materials - and to give the end-user a single interface for information retrieval, document request, electronically assisted document delivery, and conventional interlibrary loan. RLG and PICA intend to pool development resources in creating shareable software modules and to offer integrated end-user services to libraries and their patrons on both sides of the Atlantic.

]]> Gerard Van Marle http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/53 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/53 Charles Townley http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/52 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/52 James Thompson et al. http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/50 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/50 In a knowledge-based society, there is a demand for information. University libraries with their vast resources could meet this demand and in certain situations create the demand for information. In Malaysia which aspires to be an industrialized nation by the year 2020, many university and research libraries have responded to this growing demand. Eight of the universities and institutions of higher learning which have been fully subsidized by the Government in the past will be corporatized in 1996. The reasons for corporatization are many, among them to allow flexibility in the management of the institutions, including finance. The library, being an important component of the university and being one that needs enormous financial resources to provide a good service, must do its part to bring in some revenue to the university. Possible sources of revenue are Membership, Fee-based Services, Contract Research and Consultancy. Library service which was freely available to students in the past, now is a service with a fee. External membership is also seen as a source of revenue. The underlying principle is that library-users who benefit from its collection should contribute to the building of the collection. As in marketing other commodities, the marketing mix is essential. Some choose to introduce the product first and create further demand while others confidently enter the market by geographical area or by industries. Fee-based databases are increasing while some libraries tailor their services to suit their customers. Determining the price and charges on the services at the beginning is quite a problem since it is a new product. The pioneers in the field started with introductory prices but later let the forces of the market determine the price. But it is important for the supplier-libraries not to deviate too much from the normal pricing. Industries do not need to build small libraries of their own when they could have access to wider resources of the university and research institution libraries. They save on operational expenditure in terms of material acquisition, journal and database subscriptions and staffing. The future paradigm will see closer links between industries and university libraries. This could be further enhanced through cooperation of research and investment arms of the universities who already have close liaison with industries.

]]> Rosna Taib http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/49 http://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1996/papers/49 John Tagler