The use of external current awareness services at Southampton University

Parker, Chelsea

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“…The experience of C. C. Parker at the University of Southampton may prove to be typical. 5 He reported a drop from forty-seven to five users of an SDI service after charges were introduced. It was not that the users could not pay the charges, but that they preferred to use their resources for other more important needs.…”

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Providing Bibliographic Services From Machine-Readable Data Bases--The Library's Role

Gennaro¹

1973

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215Libraries will play a key . role in providing access to data bases, but not by subscribing to tape services and establishing local processing centers as is commonly assumed. High costs and the nature of the demand will make this approach unfeasible. It is more likely that the library~s reference staff will develop the capability of serving as a broker between the local campus user and the various regional or specialized retail distribution centers which exist or will be established.This brief paper will attempt to counter the widely held view that the larger research libraries will soon need to begin subscribing to the growing number of data bases in machine-readable form and providing current awareness and other services from them for their local users. 0 It will speculate on how this field might develop and will suggest a less expensive and more feasible strategy which libraries may use to gain access to these increasingly important bibliographic services. The key question of who will pay for these new services, the user or the institution, will also be discussed.While it is clearly outside the scope of this paper to review the state-of-

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