Scholarly Communication in an Electronic Environment Issues for Research Libraries

In recent years the structure and processes of scholarly communication have undergone a transformation as radical as that occasioned by the advent of movable type in the 15th century. New technologies for recording and disseminating information are completely revolutionising the way in which scholars communicate. Just as the earlier radical transformation changed forever libraries and librarianship - indeed, made the modern library necessary and possible - so too the current revolution will undoubtably have profound effects on the future of research librarianship.;Any academic librarian in a position to subscribe to, manipulate, or face the administrative issues of electronic media should find a timely base of information in this book. "Scholarly Communication in an Electronic Environment" is a collection of essays from the plenary session of the 33rd Annual ACRL Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Preconference at the University of California Santa Cruz, June 23-26, 1992.