Overview of current trends in scholarly publishing, but the major focus wil be on their impact on libraries. Changes in everything from pricing to delivery, have meant a sea-change in funding, in cooperative agreements and ultimately in the products we can provide. At the same time almost every aspect of what we do as librarians, especially technical services librarians has changed, radically. From specialists in obtaining physical material, we have been forced to become experts in license negotiation, have been forced to re-invent what our OPACs do, how we add records, what kinds of records, change the very nature of what goes into the catalogs we create, and of coourse upgrade skills almost daily. And working much closer with public services.
Student needs for study space and library needs for collection space collided.
The resolution was an aggressive weeding project, review of consortial holdings for retention decisions, and the use of off-site storage for materials. She will discuss the issue of authority control in the larger context of indexing and database construction. Eastern Connecticut State University is one of four state universities sharing an integrated library system with the Connecticut State Library. Our collaborative policies distribute the authority control responsibilities to all members. The procedures we use on the local level, and problems and pitfalls of catalog maintenance on the consortial level will be presented.