From Gutenberg to the global information infrastructure: access to information in the networked world
Proceedings of the 2000 information resources management association international conference on Challenges of information technology management in the 21st century
The Valuation of Information Technology: A Guide for Strategy Development, Valuation, and Financial Planning
Evolving Virtual Library II: Practical and Philosophical Perspectives
Evolving Virtual Library II: Practical and Philosophical Perspectives
Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education
Dancing with the Devil: Information Technology and the New Competition in Higher Education
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
Blown to Bits: How the New Economics of Information Transforms Strategy
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Historic models of library management are being tested and modified in the digital age because of several interrelated factors. First, the importance of place or a home library space changes as electronic opportunities for dispersal of library collections increase with IT innovations and availability. Second, the high cost of IT has made library managers more sensitive to issues of cost in general while the ability of IT systems to provide easy access to managerial data, data previously difficult to capture, has allowed library managers to begin to differentiate costs for services based on use. As a result of these two factors, new, partially cost-focused models for delivering IT systems and information sources to library users are being developed. The new IT library regional models raise many questions about appropriate organizational and funding strategies. In this case, one strategy is examined in depth. Suggestions for alternative managerial strategies and economic models for IT regional library managers to pursue are given, based on the lessons to be gleaned from this experience and an examination of the literature describing other regional IT digital library ventures.