Document Delivery Services

Contrasting Views

Robin Kinder, Robin Kinder

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Routledge
04 June 1999

Business & management; Postal & telecommunications industries

Design and maintain document delivery services that are ideal for academic patrons!

In Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, you’ll visit four university library systems to discover the considerations and challenges each library faced in bringing document delivery to its clientele. This book examines the questions about document delivery that are most pressing in the profession of library science. Despite their own unique experiences, you’ll find common practices among all fourincluding planning, implementation of service, and evaluation of either user satisfaction and/or vendor performance.

This book reviews the planning and process of implementing document delivery in:

Miami University

University of Colorado at Denver

University of Montana at Missoula

Purdue University Libraries

Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views addresses the paradigm of access versus acquisition and shows you how document delivery can be more integral in the library right alongside full-text databases, Internet access, and reference services. This book focuses on the issues that develop specifically in academic libraries, such as the invisible user majority of undergraduate students when considering budget issues and collection development. This book also explores the dynamic relationship between faculty and library administration that can impact events such as serials cancellations, alternative access to materials, and the reorganization of libraries to incorporate enhanced services to users.

You’ll find useful information and proven methods concerning these topics:

re-engineering library services

restructuring a traditional Interlibrary Loan Department into an Information Delivery/Interlibrary Loan Department (ID/ILL)

criteria for document delivery vendor selection

delivering electronic tables of contents and search strategy outputs to faculty desktops

document delivery in academic fee-based information services

With Document Delivery Services: Contrasting Views, document delivery becomes more than a simple acquisitions tool or a necessary service; instead it is an enhanced access service that lends greater perspective to library staff and users alike. This handy volume will help expand the role of document delivery services in your own library setting.

By: Robin Kinder, Robin Kinder
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 212mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 362g
ISBN: 9780789005403
ISBN 10: 0789005409
Pages: 96
Publication Date: 04 June 1999
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Robin Kinder, MLS, is Reference Librarian in the William Allan Neilson Library at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and Adjunct Lecturer in the School for Information Science and Policy at the Universtiy of New York at Albany, teaching introductory and humanities reference sources and services. She acts as a liason to the Office of Minority Affairs, the Women's Studies Committee, and the School for Social Work. Ms. Kinder's professional associations include the American Library Association, the Association of College and Research Libraries, the ACRL/New England Women's Studies Interest Group, and the Pioneer Valley Association for Academic Librarians. She is Associate Editor of The Reference Librarian and The Acquisitions Librarian, both Haworth Press journals.