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Managing the electronic resources transforming research libraries : challenges in the dynamic digital environment / Rick B. Forsman -- Here today, gone tomorrow : what can be done to assure permanent public access to electronic government information? / Daniel P. O'Mahony -- Past, present, and future of library development (fund-raising) / Joan M. Hood -- Cooperation in the field of distance education in library and information science in Estonia / Sirje Virkus -- Historiography and the land-grant university library / Douglas J. Ernest -- Automated Library systems : a history of constraints and opportunities / James L. Terry -- Guidelines for evaluating e-journal providers with applications to JSTOR and project muse / Mary Jean Pavelsek -- Data preparation for electronic publications / Norman Desmarais -- Metropolitan area networks and the future of networking in the United Kingdom / D.G. Law -- The quest for access to images : history and development / Christine L. Sundt.

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