Redesigning library services. A message from Michael Buckland

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Buckland, M. (1999), "Redesigning library services. A message from Michael Buckland", Asian Libraries, Vol. 8 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1999.17308bad.005

Redesigning library services. A message from Michael Buckland

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Redesigning library services ­ a message from Michael Buckland

Some months ago, faculty from two other schools asked me why my book, Redesigning Library Services (American Library Association, 1992), appeared to be unavailable. The explanation was that ALA had allowed it to go out of stock and then out of print. The full text of the book is now freely available on the University of California, Berkeley, Sunsite at: http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Literature/Library/Redesigning/. This has been possible because I had negotiated a clause in the book contract stating that if the book went out of print and the publisher declined to reprint it, the copyright would revert to the author ­ and I exercised that right. (Twenty years ago this was a standard clause in Pergamon Press contracts. I encourage authors to ask for it.) The text is the same as the published version (so far as I could identify and incorporate changes made by the ALA copy-editor to the diskette that I had submitted), except that a supplement on the future of collection development has been added to Chapter 6.