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Topic -  Outsourcing of Technical Services in Libraries:
outsourcing - noun : the procuring of services from an outside provider in order to cut costs

American Library Association
Outsourcing and Privatization in Libraries
http://tinyurl.com/ee02

American Library Association *PDF file*
Impact of Oursourcing and Privatization
on Library Services & Management
PDF document - 111 pages  c. 2000
http://tinyurl.com/e1ms 

ALA Statements, Guidelines, and Checklists on Outsourcing
http://tinyurl.com/edzx

ALA Bibliography
Outsourcing in Libraries
http://tinyurl.com/edzq

Definitions and Related ALA Policies on Outsourcing
http://tinyurl.com/ee08

Online article
"A Weighted Decision Matrix for Outsourcing Library Services"
Ball, D. (2003)
The Bottom Line: Managing Library Finances 16, 1: 25-30
http://gessler.emeraldinsight.com/vl=8235602/cl=20/nw=1/rpsv/librarylink/collection/

Librarians in the 21st Century
Outsourcing
What's it all about
http://istweb.syr.edu/21stcenlib/where/outsourcing.html

inCite Magazine - Australia Library & Information Association
February 1999
Outsourcing technical services: a study of six public libraries
by Noel Willis

 Reengineering and Outsourcing: The Hawaii Experience 
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hspls/reos/reos.html

Issues Concerning Outsourcing
http://www.virtualogistics.com/VL/OutSourcing/issues.html

Article citations from Autocat listserv
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/adm_outs.htm

Outsourcing Collection Development
http://web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/560_lec_out.html

Outsourcing in Law Firm Libraries
By Rachel Pergament
http://www.llrx.com/features/outsourcing.htm

Outsourcing copy cataloging at Adelphi University Libraries
by Horenstein, Bonnie 
Cataloging & Classification Quarterly 2000 V. 28 (4) pg.105-116

Outsourcing Federal Libraries
by R. Lee Hadden, 
Progressive Librarian : Issue no.14, Spring 1998 page 44 

Outsourcing Digitization 
Article on : Library Journal Digital
Sept. 1999
by Roy Tennant

Online Article:
Australian library workers fight cuts to jobs and services
By Erika Zimmer
17 August 2000
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2000/aug2000/libr-a17.shtml

Article:
Public Libraries: Outsourcing Technical Services
by Barbara Appleby
SLIS 5320.001
Spring 2000
http://www.unt.edu/slis/students/projects/5320/appleby.htm

Comment: Outsourcing Library Services
by Sarah Ann Long
Past President : American Library Association 2000-2001

Internet Library for Librarians
Library Outsourcing Articles
http://www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/adm_outs.htm

Online Article:
Outsourcing in Law Firm Libraries
By Rachel Pergament
Published April 1, 1999
 

Article:
"Outsourcing Library Services: Death Knell for the Profession or an Idea Whose Time Has Come?"
American Association of Law Libraries Newsletter, v.26(9), June 1995
 

PDF Article - **You'll need "adobe acrobat reader" installed to open and read**
Outsourcing: A Public Library Checklist 
http://www.pla.org/outsourc.pdf 

Library Technology Reports
ISSN 0024-2586
Vol. 34, no. 5 (September-October 1998) contains a guide to
Outsourcing in Libraries by Richard W. Boss.

**Note: "Library Technology Reports"
Subscriptions are available by writing: 
Library Technology Reports
(ISSN 0024-2586), 
S&S Computer Services, Inc.
434 W. Downer
Aurora, IL 60506; 
individual issues are $50 to non-subscribers.

Libraries & Outsourcing Links
Note: Site last updated August 1999
http://www.hcc.hawaii.edu/hspls/libout.html

Outsourcing Survey Results - Urban Libraries Council
Spring 1998
http://www.urbanlibraries.org/standards/outsourc.html

Book/Paper

Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations: Practices In Public, 
Academic, And Special Libraries
By: Wilson, Karen A. // Other Association For Library Collections 
Joint Author Colver, Marylou 
Trade Paper 
264 pages 
Publication Date: December 1999 
Publisher: American Library Association 
ISBN: 0838907032

Book:
Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations:
Practices in Academic, Public, and Special Libraries
Karen A. Wilson  Marylou Colver (Editor)
ISBN: 0838907032
Publisher: American Library Association
Pub. Date: December  1999

BOOK:
Outsourcing Library Operations in Academic Libraries
An Overview of Issues and Outcomes
Claire-Lise Benaud
PUBLISHER/SUPPLIER: LIBRARIES UNLIMITED
Pub. Date: June  1998
ISBN: 1-56308-509-7

BOOK:
Outsourcing Library Technical Services
A how-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians, addressing one of the most
controversial topics in librarianship today.
by Arnold Hirshon, Vice Provost for Information Resources, Lehigh 
University and Barbara Winters, Associate University Librarian for Central Services, 
Wright State University 
Publication Information: New York: Neal-Schuman Publisher, 
New York, NY 10013. ISBN: 1-55570-221-X 
Publication date: Fall, 1996.
150 pp. $45.00 Accompanying diskette of "Ready to Import RFP
Specifications." Publication price: $20.00. ISBN: 1-55570-272-4

"The authors have written a practical manual covering the entire 
process, from reengineering and cost studies through preparing an RFP (Request 
for Proposal), selecting a vendor, and coping with the effect of
outsourcing on staff. The chapters include detailed information and sample RFPs for
outsourcing of acquisitions and cataloging; the RFPs are also available 
in electronic form on a companion disk, Outsourcing Technical Services:
Ready-To-Import RFP Specifications (Neal-Schuman, 1996). This book will
likely add fuel to the outsourcing fire; for example, statements such 
as "once [national standards and local cataloging practices] are defined, 
the generation of the actual component records becomes a matter of 
production according to specifications, not one of design" are likely to offend 
many catalogers. Nevertheless, if one accepts the authors' premise that 
"creative use of outsourcing is essential to the proper running of libraries," 
one will find this book a useful guide to managing outsourcing effectively.
Recommended for library administrators and technical services staff." -
Janet Crum, Oregon Health Sciences Univ. Lib., Portland.

Handbook of Federal Librarianship
Outsourcing Chapter
http://lcweb.loc.gov/flicc/hbfl/chap5.html
 

Carter, Kathy. "Outsourced cataloguing and physical processing 
at the University of Alberta Library." 
In Wilson, Karen A. and Marylou Colver, Eds.
 Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations.
 Chicago: American Library Association, 1997: 3-14. 

Library Services Vendor Listings
http://yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Business_to_Business/Information/Library_Services/
 

Vendor Prospectus
YBP Library Services, 
a Baker & Taylor 
http://www.baker-taylor.com/
Company, provides books and supporting 
collection management <collectiontools.htm> 
and technical services <techservices.htm> to
 academic, research <libservices.htm> and 
<specialservices.htm> libraries in North America and around the world. 

YBP offers a range of bibliographic, processing, and cataloging 
services.  More than one hundred libraries use one or more of these services, 
and usage is expanding steadily.
YBP works in partnership with libraries, businesses serving libraries, 
and agencies such as OCLC and WLN.
The result is a fertile development environment in which our 
capabilities are constantly being refined and enhanced
This prospectus provides basic information on YBP's cataloging
and processing capabilities, and our plans for the next six months. 
http://www.ybp.com/prospectus.htm

Book:
Exploring Outsourcing: Case Studies of Corporate Libraries
http://www.sla.org/pubs/books/out.html

Related items: 
Corporate Intranets & Corporate Libraries
Quoted from Chapter 1:
While the literature suggests massive growth in information use, 
it is ironic that there has been much written about the demise of the corporate library,
traditionally the information provider within a corporation
(Crawford & Gorman 1995, Davenport & Prusack 1993, Pescovitz 1995, Caulfield 1997). 
Davenport & Prusack (1993) state that, "…corporate libraries.. 
have largely been left behind by the information revolution. 
Most of them operate on obsolete storage based models of information management.
They have little influence and their employees are often in dead-end careers". 
As information managers, and the traditional keepers and providers of published information, 
it would not be unreasonable to assume that corporate librarians would be utilising
this new facility to radically change the way they disseminate and provide information. 
Chapter 2 - Literature Review
http://jimmy.qmuc.ac.uk/usr/im94jone/Chapter2.htm
(comments, article citations concerning "demise" of corporate libraries & librarians)

NOTE: Looking for Articles on any Library topic - check out DoIS
http://dois.mimas.ac.uk/
DoIS (Documents in Information Science) is a database of articles and conference proceedings 
published in electronic format in the area of Library and Information Science. 
At the moment we hold about 7742 articles and 1774 papers, 4011 of them are downloable from our site. 

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