Ultimate Digital Library : Where the New Information Players Meet.

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Strange Bedfellows -- Building the Bed -- Driving Development -- Mergers and Acquisitions -- Virtual Mergers -- The "Partnership -- Homegrown Backlash -- Chapter 2: Sizing Up the Dot-com Competition -- What Yahoo Did -- Do You Google? -- Ask Jeeves or Liveperson -- Contentville... We Deliver -- The Amazonian Catalog -- Chapter 3: Business Challenges to Library Practices -- The Commercialization of Library Services -- Libraries Fight Back and Catch Up -- Chapter 4: Business Models for Digital Library Services -- The Business of Libraries -- Digital Service -- Order to Chaos -- Keeping Products and Services Relevant -- Refining Culture -- Chapter 5: Sheep in Wolves' Clothing -- Library Work vs. Work in Libraries -- The Revolving Door -- The Private Sector -- Double Agent -- Dot-edu in a Dot-com World -- Chapter 6: Libraries are Not All Businesses -- Licensing and Fair Use -- Ownership vs. Access -- How to Make Vendors Listen -- What If Vendors Don't Listen? -- Chapter 7: First Principles -- Eroding Expectations of Privacy -- Protecting Privacy -- Library Privacy Violations -- From Privacy Police to Privacy Ambassadors -- Chapter 8: Radical Notions and Conclusions -- Informative Expertise -- Valleys, Plateaus, and Mountains -- Timing, Pace, and Business Model Planning -- Distinguishing Libraries in the Information Industry -- Appedixes -- A: Internet Companies, Library Automation Vendors, and Information Organizations -- B: Library Automation Vendor Survey -- Bibliography -- Index.

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