Abstract
Western society is now in a period of what I call instant information feedback. People demand and receive electronically produced citations, abstracts and sometimes full-text documents in hours, minutes or even seconds after the request is placed. This rapid transmission of information is having a profound effect on the information professionals due to the advent of end-user searching, the demand for faster document retrieval through interlibrary loan, the legal implications of ownership and copyright, costs to the user and the library, the promise of linked systems networks, downloading of information from public databases to create in-house files, and the continual upgrading of hardware and software. How we as library managers intend to handle these questions requires serious thinking and the need for strategic planning.
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Sharrow, M.J. (1985). Online Information Systems in North America. In: Liebaers, H., Haas, W.J., Biervliet, W.E. (eds) New Information Technologies and Libraries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5452-6_17
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