Partnerships and promises: the history and future of library and US Government information
John A. Shuler
(John A. Shuler is Associate Professor and Department Head/Documents Librarian at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.)
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Abstract
Librarians involved with the US Federal Depository Library system need to seriously reconsider their roles and economic arguments, as more federal agencies bypass the Government Printing Office and publish government information directly through the World Wide Web. If “ownership” and “collections” were the watchwords under the earlier model, “service” and “partnerships” will dominate the practice of government information librarians in the next century.
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Citation
Shuler, J.A. (2002), "Partnerships and promises: the history and future of library and US Government information", The Bottom Line, Vol. 15 No. 2, pp. 60-63. https://doi.org/10.1108/08880450210427317
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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