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Backing Into Network Operations
When asked to participate in this clinic, I gave the tentative title
"Backing Into Network Operations" for my paper because I thought it might
be useful to discuss some principles of planning for and consensus making
within networks which I had derived the hard way from my
experience
directing two computer-based networks-networks which were entered into by
chance rather than design. (In addition, the Washington University School of
Medicine Library is a member of three other networks: the Regional Medical
Library, the Regional Medical Program, and the Higher Education Coordi-
nating Council, so that we have experience on both sides of networks.) It
seemed that it might be helpful to examine the mistakes which we made and
the
generalized conclusions which we might draw from them as hypotheses to
be tested in other
networking operations, as well as a comparison with some
other, more carefully planned, networks now in existence. I therefore devote
the
beginning of my paper to describing the two networks we have been
involved in,
merely as background to understanding, and not as another "How
I do it
good in my library" paper.published or submitted for publicatio
Medical Periodicals
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Users of Health Sciences Libraries
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Reactions to failures in library automation
I know of at least three other contributing reasons
which might explain the dearth of reports telling of the demise or required
reconstruction of library automation systems. These are: (1) the emotion
of the newly-converted, (2) the attitude of librarians and others dealing
with libraries concerning funds, and (3) the difficulty many librarians
seem to have in understanding exactly what is subsumed under the words
"research and development."published or submitted for publicatio
Medicine
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