| Popis: |
Basing his observations upon visits to each of the 47 charter member libraries of the Ohio College Library Center, the author addresses the effects of that network upon those libraries' monographic borrowing and lending through interlibrary loan. Among other things, he sees that coordinated collection development does not arise simply because of the existence of a successful network and that strong independent initiatives are necessary by network participants. In conclusion, he suggests that a coordinated collection development program should begin by reaffirming the primacy of local collections and that the idea of “local collections” should be expanded to include all of those collections to which users can go with little inconvenience. |
