Publications and Research
Document Type
Book Chapter or Section
Publication Date
11-2016
Abstract
The information environment that librarians help information seekers to navigate has experienced a radical shift. With the addition of electronic content to print materials, how information seekers access information, as well as how librarians collect, manage, and share information resources, is evolving. As for interlibrary loan (ILL) services, new challenges and opportunities in library resource sharing are emerging, now that interlibrary loan specialists facilitate the sharing of digital, as well as print, information. This chapter examines the successes that library resource sharing specialists have achieved, as well as the challenges they face, with respect to providing access to e-books and e-serials, including the impact on information sharing of licensing models, digitization, open access publishing, and digital preservation archiving.
Comments
Author's pre-print.
Published version: Cho, J.S., & Schmidt, L. (2016). Sharing digital collections and content. In B. Posner (Ed.), Library information and resource sharing: Transforming services and collections (pp. 111-134). Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO.