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Specific Recommendations

To implement these new roles for the library will require a major overhaul in how they do business. Library staff will need state--of--the--art networked computers and software on their desktop. However, librarians should not become specialists in computer systems/hardware/software. These infrastructure activities should stay with those with expertise in academic computing (ACS). This means that different departments at UMBC need to work much more closely together. For example, ACS and the Library should have administrative ties that force them to work together closely.

It should be noted that many (not all) of the above recommendations can be implemented with very little additional equipment. What is needed is of cooperation between departments, the library, and ACS. This cooperation will probably require someone dedicated to the task facilitating the coherent organization of UMBC information, which we now lack.



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Dr. Larrabee Strow
Thu Mar 30 17:21:15 EST 1995