Redesigning Library Services: A Manifesto

Michael Buckland

Published in 1992 by the American Library Association. ISBN 0-8389-0590-0.

Notes & Copyright

An Appendix has been added to Chapter 6, but the text is otherwise intended to be the same as the published edition. A few minor differences may exist. Copyright: The author, Michael K. Buckland, assigned the copyright to this work to the American Library Association in 1992 for publication purposes. In 1997, when the American Library Association allowed this book to go out of print, the copyright reverted to Michael K. Buckland. This text may be used for non-commercial personal and non-commercial education purposes provided that copyright ownership by Michael K. Buckland is acknowledged. All other rights reserved.

Contents

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Foreword
Preface

1. Introduction
2. The Paper Library
3. The Automated Library
4. Bibliographic Access Reconsidered
5. The Electronic Library
6. Collections Reconsidered
7. Serving the User
8. Organization and Implementation
9. The Challenge

Appendix: Sources
Index

Figures (to follow)

• 3.1 "Search and Retrieve" (Z39:50) Protocol
• 3.2 Cost Trends: Labor and Machines
• 4.1 Conventional Relationship between Bibliographies, Catalogs, Library Holdings Records, and Documents
• 4.2 Simplified Relationship between Bibliographies, Holdings Records, and Documents
• 4.3 Conventional and Linked Record Structures
• 4.4 Extended Retrieval
• 5.1 Automated and Electronic Library Record Structures