Database Ownership and Copyright Issues Among Automated Library Networks: An Analysis and Case Study (Contemporary Studies in Information Management, Policies & Services) - Softcover

Janice R. Franklin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1567500161 ISBN 13: 9781567500165

Publisher: Praeger, 1993

Synopsis

This volume uses a social model to analyze issues of database ownership and copyright among automated library networks. It explores the possibility that the barriers to networking regarding database ownership and copyright are not specific to the context of libraries, but are instead part of a larger recurring theme in social groups, organizations, and systems. This social network model is significant because it explains ownership issues as a consequence of the dynamic nature of library network relationships, which have been complicated by environmental forces and a confusion of network roles. The research in this work focuses on the Online Computer Library Center's (OCLC) decision to copyright the database and the reactions of regional networks and libraries. The debate over ownership is a direct outgrowth of issues of centralization between OCLC and regional networks, issues that have strained relationships between OCLC and the regional networks that attempted to develop their own services independently. Resolving the conflict will require overcoming the problems of governance, competition, communication, policy formulation, and role definition that recur in library network relationships. Solutions are required in order to share information internationally and to link national bibliographic utilities and information networks in a common system.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Praeger
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1567500161
• ISBN 13: 9781567500165
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204