RE: Affiliated researchers and independent contractors

["Heather Morrison" <hmorrison@ola.bc.ca>]

Good point!

In our very own field, electronic access opens up the possibility of
making library science journal collections available to everyone who works
in a library anywhere, not just onsite at universities where library
science is taught.  This is already beginning to happen to some extent, as
aggregators do include some of the journals in their collections, but what
is presently happening is only a tiny fraction of the potential of the
electronic medium.

my personal two bits,

Heather Grace Morrison, BC ELN

liblicense-l@lists.yale.edu writes:

>I believe that electronic access opens a number of opportunities,
>including redefining who our primary clientele is.  In public health, I'm
>certainly doing that to make better information available to all public
>health practitioners in the state, regardless of their location in
>Michigan.  I think the ball is really in our court to define our primary
>clientele and not the vendor's.  Being Friday afternoon I'm just going to
>say it--sometimes we're our own worst enemies and almost ask vendors to
>screw us.
>
>Harvey Brenneise
>Michigan Public Health Institute
>hbrenne@mphi.org