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From CLANN to UNILINC: An automated library consortium from a soft systems perspective.

机译：从CLANN到UNILINC：从软件系统的角度看，一个自动化的图书馆联盟。

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Regional library networks (consortia) continue to survive, and even to proliferate in an age of wide-area networking. This cannot be explained entirely by their infrastructures, since advances in computing and communications have provided apparent alternatives. This dissertation employs Peter Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) at a large multi-type consortium to identify factors which might account for its robustness.;The College Libraries Activity Network of New South Wales (CLANN) was established in the mid-1970s. Its boundaries currently extend into Victoria, Queensland, and the Australian Capital Territory. The name UNILINC was adopted in the early 1990s, coincident with changes in governance. UNILINC was chosen as an exemplar of a "mixed type" consortium, since it included academic, public, school, and special libraries among its members, because it served urban and rural institutions of widely varying sizes and clienteles. The study employed a review of historical material, electronic mail exchanges, in-depth interviews with representative site and headquarters managers and staff, observation of committee meetings and daily activities, and a corroborative examination of the computing system.;The study identified a key shift in emphasis--from the provision of information itself, to the procurement, implementation, and management of information technology (IT). This could be expressed in a root definition: "A member-institution owned and consortium-staff-operated system to bring about innovation in information technology and attendant services through cooperation among member institutions." The consortium's strengths included its abilities to adapt existing technologies to member needs, to develop new products and services, to facilitate communication and training, to reduce duplication of effort and expense, and to provide a forum for discussion of common professional or technical issues.;This dissertation contends that the continued viability of consortia may rest more upon the cultural and economic value obtained when technical and professional expertise are nurtured and made available cooperatively, than upon their native technologies or infrastructures. The concept of the consortium as an expertise-based agency, charged both with implementing IT and with delivering high-quality information, may be suitable for widespread emulation, and may suggest future directions for librarianship at large.
机译：区域图书馆网络（财团）继续生存，甚至在广域网络时代都在激增。这不能完全用其基础结构来解释，因为计算和通信方面的进步提供了明显的替代方案。本文在一个大型的多类型财团中采用了Peter Checkland的软件系统方法论（SSM）来确定可能导致其健壮性的因素。;新南威尔士大学的图书馆活动网络（CLANN）于1970年代中期成立。它的边界目前扩展到维多利亚，昆士兰州和澳大利亚首都特区。 UNILINC这个名字在1990年代初被采用，与治理的变化相吻合。 UNILINC之所以被选为“混合型”财团的典范，是因为它为成员大小各异的城市和农村机构提供服务，其中包括学术，公共，学校和特殊图书馆。该研究回顾了历史资料，进行了电子邮件交流，与代表地点和总部经理和员工进行了深入访谈，观察了委员会会议和日常活动以及对计算机系统进行了有力的检验。重点-从信息本身到信息技术（IT）的采购，实施和管理。这可以用一个根本的定义来表达：“一个成员机构拥有的，由联盟人员组成的操作系统，通过成员机构之间的合作实现信息技术和伴随服务的创新。”财团的优势包括能够使现有技术适应成员需求，开发新产品和服务，促进交流和培训，减少重复劳动和费用，以及为讨论常见专业或技术问题提供论坛的能力。本文认为，财团的持续生存能力更多地取决于培养和合作提供技术和专业知识所获得的文化和经济价值，而不是其本国技术或基础设施。该财团的概念是基于专业知识的机构，既负责实施IT并提供高质量的信息，它可能适合于广泛的模仿，并可能为整个图书馆事业提出未来的方向。

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    Brown-Syed, Christopher Lucian.;

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    University of Toronto (Canada).;

  • 授予单位 University of Toronto (Canada).;
  • 学科 Library Science.;Information Science.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 1996
  • 页码 308 p.
  • 总页数 308
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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