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  • “Just How Are We Going to Satisfy Our Research Customers” 
    Follett, Sir Brian K. (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
    The challenge is how to provide our researchers with ready and unimpeded access to all types of research information, whether it is held on paper or electronically. This has been, of course, the role of research libraries ...
  • Editorial 
    Te Boekhorst, Peter; Scholle, Ulrike (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
  • The Dutch Deposit of Electronic Publications (DNEP) - 1995-2000 
    Sijtsma, Lex (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
    In 1993 the Internet took off with the introduction of HTML and the first browser (Mosaic). Two years later, in 1995, the Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB) decided to start a series of experiments and projects which would lead ...
  • KVK - a Meta Catalog of Libraries 
    Mönnich, Michael W. (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
    Over the past years, the majority of libraries worldwide implemented interfaces to allow users to access to their bibliographic databases through the WWW. Usually these interfaces consist of HTML-pages with an embedded ...
  • European National Libraries: a Review of the Year’s Activities 1999- 2000 
    Smethurst, Michael (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
    This review of the activities of the National Libraries in membership of the Conference of European National Librarians has again been compiled from the summary reports for the year 1999 submitted by the Directors to the ...
  • French University Libraries 1988-1998: A Statistical Analysis 
    Gabel, Gernot U. (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
    Based on an analysis of statistical data from the past decade which have been published annually by the French Ministry of Education (Annuaire des bibliothèques universitaires), the article gives an overview of developments ...
  • Editorial 
    Te Boekhorst, Peter; Scholle, Ulrike (Igitur, 2001-07-16)
  • Library Purchasing Consortia in the UK 
    Ball, David; Friend, Frederick (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    The distribution of library purchasing consortia across the United Kingdom is uneven and sector-dependent. Only higher education libraries show a well developed regional infrastructure of purchasing consortia covering ...
  • The Long Road to Becoming a “Consortium of Swiss University Libraries” 
    Neubauer, Wolfram; Piguet, Arlette (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    Although the idea that co-operative licensing of electronically researchable information products would bring positive benefits for academic libraries has probably been grasped by libraries in general, what is often lacking ...
  • Consortium Building and Licensing by University Libraries in the Netherlands 
    Klugkist, Alex C. (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    There are 13 university libraries in the Netherlands. Together with the Royal Library in The Hague and the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences in Amsterdam they form an association, the Association UKB. The UKB is a voluntary ...
  • Library Consortia in Germany 
    Reinhardt, Werner; Te Boekhorst, Peter (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    Looking at the present situation in Germany consortia show a considerable variety of organizational forms. Only in the case of the Friedrich-Althoff-Consortium in Berlin-Brandenburg a corporate body with deed of partnership ...
  • The Situation in the Sphere of Consortia and Licensing of Information Sources in the Czech Republic 
    Pilar, Jindrich (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    The primary reason for founding „consortia“ (open associations) of information services in the Czech Republic seems to be the possibility of obtaining access to extensive and highly expensive information sources under more ...
  • Libraries in Finland Establish Consortia 
    Häkli, Esko (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    I will discuss the development of organized consortia, which are based on a charter or a written contract. I will also deal with some issues related to the organization of the consortia. I would already here like to stress, ...
  • Les Consortia en France 
    Berard, Raymond (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    Alors que les consortia se sont développés un peu partout dans le monde dès le début des années 90, la France est restée à l’écart de cette dynamique jusqu’en 1997: après un timide démarrage autour de la cellule Mathdoc ...
  • Consortia for Electronic Library Provision in Belgium 
    Van Borm, Julien; Dujardin, Marianne (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    E-libraries just like the former paper-based libraries will become increasingly essential and indispensable tools in research and education. Library consortia seem to be the way to get e-libraries started all over the ...
  • Library Consortia in Croatia 
    Jokic, Maja (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    The problem of the increasing number of information sources and their costs as well as more demanding users on the one side, and limited financial resources on the other, has not avoided Croatia. One of the attempts to ...
  • Academic Library Consortia in the United States: An Introduction 
    Bostick, Sharon L. (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
    Library consortia in the United States arose from a need for sharing when resources or funding for those resources were scarce. This is as true today as it was over 100 years ago when the first American consortia were ...
  • A Current International Bibliography of the Literature of the History of Cartography on the WWW: of Whom, by Whom, and for Whom? 
    Herbert, Francis (Igitur, 2000-07-14)
    I shall briefly mention, as a discussion basis, various facets of the proposal that have occurred to me under the headings: Currency, Countries, Contributions, Content, Compilation, Control & Co-operation, and Computer ...
  • Editorial 
    Te Boekhorst, Peter; Scholle, Ulrike (Igitur, 2001-07-14)
  • Can a Map Be a Geographic Information Retrieval Tool? 
    Smits, Jan (Igitur, 2000-07-14)
    This paper is intended to open up discussion on potential co-operation, which would enable participants restricted by unequal resources and technologies to participate in a pan-European project. The idea has not yet been ...