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Electronic consortia: resource sharing in the digital age

Uma Hiremath (Uma Hiremath is a Political Scientist and a Librarian at the New York Public Library, New York, USA.)

Collection Building

ISSN: 0160-4953

Article publication date: 1 June 2001

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Abstract

The search for effective electronic resource sharing by libraries around the world is placed within a framework of commonly felt needs fomented by the digital age. The many forms such consortial undertakings have taken are described here. The existing challenges inherent in the consortial structure are also suggested.

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Hiremath, U. (2001), "Electronic consortia: resource sharing in the digital age", Collection Building, Vol. 20 No. 2, pp. 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604950110388716

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