Negotiating for computer services: Must the librarian be underdog?

Brady, Ronald W.

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Title

Negotiating for computer services: Must the librarian be underdog?

Author(s)

Brady, Ronald W.

Issue Date

1977

Keyword(s)

• Libraries --Automation
• Negotiation

Abstract

Negotiating for computer services is a subject that should not be all that controversial. After all, computer services in many forms have been used for a long time now. Further, I do not feel that the librarian must always be the underdog in negotiating for computer services. During the last several years, I have been involved in negotiating for computing services in various organizational arrangements at several different universities. These arrangements have included many different attempts to plan for, budget, manage, evaluate, upgrade and centralize/decentralize computing services, and each attempt had its own rationale. In reviewing the history of these different organizational strategies, it is clear that, although they are convincing individually, they do not form a cohesive group and thus do not create an overall scheme for all users for all time.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Series/Report Name or Number

Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (14th : 1977)

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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