Cutting out the middle man?: disintermediation and the academic library

Ball, David Cutting out the middle man?: disintermediation and the academic library. LINK: connecting Commonwealth librarians, 2012, n. 14, pp. 2-3. [Journal article (Paginated)]

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Big Deals, open access, and digitisation increasingly mean that selection decisions are being removed from librarians and transferred to the end user. David Ball looks at the forces pushing towards this ‘disintermediation’ and considers the future role of the academic library.

Item type:	Journal article (Paginated)
Keywords:	Collection development; Academic libraries; Procurement; Electronic resources Disintermediation
Subjects:	F. Management. > FZ. None of these, but in this section.
Depositing user:	David Ball
Date deposited:	20 Sep 2012
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:23
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/17577

References

Sandler, M., ‘Collection development in the day of Google’, Library Resources and Technical Services, 50:4 (2005), pp.239-243 Ball, D.,‘Signing Away our Freedom: the implications of electronic resource licences’, The Acquisitions Librarian, 18 (35-6) (2005), pp.7-20 Jones, E., ‘Google Books as a general research collection’, Library Resources and Technical Services, 54:2 (2009), pp.77-89

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