Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Strange Bedfellows; Chapter 2: Sizing Up the Dot-com Competition; Chapter 3: Business Challenges to Library Practices; Chapter 4: Business Models for Digital Library Services; Chapter 5: Sheep in Wolves' Clothing; Chapter 6: Libraries are Not All Businesses; Chapter 7: First Principles; Chapter 8: Radical Notions and Conclusions; Appedixes; Bibliography; Index.
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Pace advocates for libraries to shift their current practices and create collaborative and win-win partnerships with vendors to provide better and more forward-looking services. He presents some extreme views and suggests radical changes on how libraries can stay competitive in the new digital arena and starts the dialogue that can lead to lasting change. Addressing the ultimate paradox--''championing the freedom of information in an economy and culture where hardly anything of value is free''--Pace shares an uncommon perspective to create winning new ways of staying ahead of the curve in this n.
Ultimate Digital Library : Where the New Information Players Meet.