Cooperative Collection Development Equals Collaborative Interdependence

Autor: Paul H. Mosher
Rok vydání: 1989
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Zdroj: Collection Building. 9:29-32
ISSN: 0160-4953
DOI: 10.1108/eb023252
Popis: Resource sharing or cooperative collection development among American libraries is not new; history reveals waves of cooperative spirit over many decades. Librarians in the United States—at least since librarianship became a serious professional enterprise around the turn of the century—have exhibited a democratic altruism about information and its distribution that has resulted in the world's richest and most extensive library collections and a tradition of library service unmatched anywhere else on the globe. Cooperative collection development in one guise or another has long been a part of both that spirit and that enterprise.
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