The library side I , , ' = , , I < Society today is experiencing a veritable explosion of different new information resources and formats. The changes are not at the expense of the book and other traditional printed media, according to Perryman [7],but are an addition to these. Librarians must take an active part in this development and offer new services in order to fulfil their role as information providers. This movement can already be seen in the case of collection development in research libraries. Electronic documents offer significant advantages to the library in four ways. Firstly, some documents are more useful in an electronic form due to enhanced searchability and manipulability, e.g. in allowing statistical calculations to be effected. Secondly, electronic form is sometimes the only alternative, so it represents a net increase in the information base.ously increasing at great speed and the library can only afford to acquire a diminishing part of it. The great volume also makes it advantageous to use electronic tools to locate the material. The fourth advantage is economy in storage: the increase in cost for keeping printed material makes electronic forms more attractive from an economic viewpoint [4].Electronic information, however, creates both legal and economic problems for libraries and publishers. The legal issues relate to copyright, ownership of information and regulations about availability and use. The economic issues relate to the financing of access to information, as opposed to acquisition of material [8]. Traditionally, libraries have had an acquisition budget for books and one for journals; to an increasing degree, the term 'information resources budget' is being used, which reflects the view that information should be made available regardless of media and form. Factors that have accelerated development towards new forms of information and knowledge distribution are the rapid advances in computer and telecommunications technology. One effect of this development is that researchers potentially can access information resources from all over the world without even entering the library. This could be devastating for the library in its role as information provider unless it actively takes part in the changing reality. Scientific communication can take place in networks outside the library, and the increased offerings of databases can make the library a small and marginal part of the whole network. Perryman [7] gives some guidelines on how libraries can work to prevent this from happening: -strengthen and expand the traditional library values of cooperation and resource sharing at UQ Library on June 15, 2015 jis.sagepub.com Downloaded from
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