OUTSOURCING OF TECHNICAL SERVICES IN ACADEMIC LIBRARIES:
A BIBLIOGRAPHY

Compiled by Marian Dworaczek


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Agada, John.  “Information Counseling and the Outsourcing Challenge to Corporate Librarianship.”  College & Research
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Agnew, Grace.  “Contracting for Technical Services: Shelf-Ready Services for Books.”  In Against All Odds: Case
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Albee, Barbara and Robin Rohrkaste Crumrin.  “Evaluating Approval Plan Processing: Is PromptCat and Option?”  In
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Alley, Brian.  “Reengineering, Outsourcing, Downsizing, and Perfect Timing.”  Technicalities 13, 11 (November 1993):
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Alvin, Glenda.  “Outsourcing Acquisitions: Methods and Models.”  In Understanding the Business of Library
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Anderson, Rick.  Buying and Contracting for Resources and Services: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians.  New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, Inc., 2004.

Apte, Uday.  “Global Outsourcing of Information Systems and Processing Services.”  The Information Society 7 (Fall
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Baker, Barry B.  “Resource Sharing: Outsourcing and Technical Services.” Technical Services Quarterly 16, 2 (1998):
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Banerjee, Kyle.  “Taking Advantage of Outsourcing Options: Using Purchased Record Sets to Maximize Cataloging
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Banister, Stephen, Marie Sheley and Crystal Lee.  “Outsourcing in Louisiana’s Academic Libraries.”  LLA Bulletin 61, 4
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Bates, Mary Ellen.  “Avoiding the Ax: How to Keep from Being Downsized or Outsourced?”  Information Outlook 1, 10
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Bates, Mary Ellen.  “Outsourcing, Co-Sourcing and Core Competencies: What’s an Information Professional to Do?”
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Bazirjian, Rosann.  “ALCTS Automated Acquisitions/In-Process Control Systems Discussion Groups, American Library
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Bénaud, Claire-Lise and Sever Bordeianu.  Outsourcing Library Operations in Academic Libraries: An Overview of
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Bénaud, Claire-Lise and Sever Bordeianu.  “PromptCat: An Early Assessment.”   In Advances in Collection
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Bénaud, Claire-Lise and Sever Bordeianu.  “Outsourcing SCOUG’s Annual Conference, City of Industry, California,
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Brown, Lynne Branche.  “Evaluating the Outsourcing of Technical Services: How Do You Know If You’re There If You
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Brown, Lynne Branche.  “Outsourcing at LSU: An Interview with Stanley Wilder.”  Library Administration &
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Bush, Carmel C., Margo Sassé and Patricia Smith.  “Toward a New World Order: A Survey of Outsourcing Capabilities
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Byrd, Jacqueline.  “A Cooperative Cataloging Proposal for Slavic and East European Languages and the Languages of the
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Campbell, Nancy.  “Burning the Midnight Oil: Third-shift Staffers Input Conversion and Serials Data.”  OCLC Newsletter,
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Campbell, Nancy.  “More Libraries Use OCLC’s Batch Conversion Services.” OCLC Newsletter, no. 205
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CannCasciato, Daniel.  “Tepid Water for Everyone? The Future OLUC, Catalogers, and Outsourcing.”  OCLC Systems
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Carter, Kathy.  “Outsourced Cataloguing and Physical Processing at the University of Alberta Library.”  In Outsourcing
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“Catalogue of Errors: Contracting Out Threatens Regina Libraries.” BRIARPATCH  (July/August 2002): 22-24.

“Central Michigan University Libraries Use TECHPRO.”  OCLC Newsletter(July/August 1995): 30.

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Chapman, Robert B. and Kathleen Andrade.   Insourcing After the Outsourcing: MIS Survival Guide.  New York:
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Cline, Lynn.  “Outsourcing Book Selection and Cataloging in Hawaii: A Critical  Examination, ALA Social Responsibilities
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Coats, Jacqueline and Joseph Kiegel.  "Automating the Nexus of Book Selection, Acquisitions and Rapid Copy Cataloging."  Library
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Crismond, Linda F.  “Outsourcing from the A/V Vendor’s Viewpoint: The Dynamics of a New Relationship.”  Library
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Crump, Michele.  Shelf-Ready Summary Report, April-December 1996. E-copy, 4 pp.URL:
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Crump, Michele and Steven Carrico.  “Shelf-Ready Standing Orders at the University of Florida’s Smathers Library.”
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Davidson, Ann C.  “Obedience to Unforceable: The Ethics of Outsourcing.” Searcher 4, 4 (April 1996): 28-30.  E-text.

Dinerman, Gloria.  “The Angst of Outsourcing.”  Information Outlook 1, 4 (April 1997): 21-24.

“Diogenes: A New Concept In Cataloging.”  The Research Libraries Group News, issue 39 (Winter 1996): 7-8.

Donahue, Janice E. and William Miller.  “Cataloging Music Scores and Foreign Language Material: Outsourcing at Florida
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Dornseif, Karen.  “Outsourcing Cataloging: An Alternative for Small Libraries.”  Colorado Libraries  21, 1 (Spring 1995):
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Duchin, Douglas.  “Outsourcing: Newman Library, Baruch College/CUNY.” The Bottom  Line: Managing Library
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Duke, John K.  “Acceptable Copy: Quality in Record Selection and Outsourcing: A Report.”  Library Acquisitions:
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"Duke Authority Control with LTI."  Rev. October 2005.  E-text, 11 pp.  URL: <http://home.earthlink.net/~adturner1980/ltiusers/id24.html>
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Dunkle, Clare B.  “Outsourcing the Catalog Department: A Meditation Inspired by the Business and Library Literature.”
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Duranceau, Ellen.  “Vendors and Librarians Speak on Outsourcing, Cataloging, and Acquisitions.”  Serials Review 20, 3
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Dwyer, Jim.  “Does Outsourcing Mean ‘Your’re Out?’.”  Technicalities 14, 6 (June 1994): 1, 6.

Dwyer, Jim.  “From PromptCat to Recat, Or, You Only Catalog Twice.” Technicalities 15, 5 (May 1995): 4.

Easton, Christa.  “Partnership with Vendors for Increased Productivity in Technical Services—A Program of the ALCTS
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El-Sherbini, Magda.  “Cataloging Alternatives: An Ivestigation of Contract Cataloging, Cooperative Cataloging and the
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El-Sherbini, Magda.  "Outsourcing of Slavic Cataloguing at the Ohio State University Libraries: Evaluation and Cost Analysis."
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El-Sherbini, Magda.  “Contract Cataloging: A Pilot Project for Outsourcing Slavic Books.”  Cataloging & Classification
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El-Sherbini, Magda and George Klim.  "Changes in Techical Services and Their Effect on the Role of Catalogers and Staff
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Ender, Kenneth L. and Kathleen A. Mooney.  “From Outsourcing to Alliances: Strategies for Sharing Leadership and
    Exploiting Resources at Metropolitan Universities.” Metropolitan Universities 5, 3 (Winter 1994): 51-60.

Farkas, Doina.  “Outsourcing of AV Cataloging at UNT Libraries: Workshop.”  OLAC  Newsletter 17, 1 (March 1997):
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Fast, Barry.  “Outsourcing and PromptCat.”  Against the Grain 7, 2 (April 1995): 50.

Fecko, Mary Beth.  “The Changing Face of Cataloging: The Impact of Technology on Copy Cataloging. Part II: A Report
    of  the ALCTS Copy Cataloging Discussion Group Meeting, American Library Association Conference, Chicago,
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Fetch, Deborah.  “The Human Side of Outsourcing: Highlights from the ALCTS President’s Program.”  Library
    Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 23, 1 (Spring 1999): 110-113.

Finn, Maureen.  “How to Plan Conversion and Contract Cataloging Projects.”  OCLC Newsletter, no. 205
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Flegen, Ann and Stephen Bosch.  “Vendor Preprocessing of Approval Material and Cataloging Records for the University
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Gammon, Julia A.  “Partnering with Vendors for Increased Productivity in Technical Services or, Bleeding Edge
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German, Lisa.  “In or Out—In-house Innovation and Outsourcing Technical Services Alternatives for the 90s: A Report
    of an ALCTS Program.”  Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 21, 1 (Spring 1997): 77-79.

“Gary R. Houk, The Vice President for OCLC Services Discusses Conversion and Contract Cataloging.”  OCLC
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Giambi, M. Dina.  “The Books Are Shelf Ready, Are You?”  Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 22, 2
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Gibbs, Nancy J.  “ALCTS/Role of the Professional in Academic Research Technical Services Departments Discussion
    Group.”  Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 18, 3 (Fall 1994): 321-322.

Gordon, Mary Jan and Les Moor.  “Creating a Library Technical Services Outsourcing Operation.”  The Serials Librarian
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Gorman, Michael.  “The Corruption of Cataloging.”  Library Journal 120, 15 (September 15, 1995): 32-34.

Granskog, Kay.  “PromptCat Testing at Michigan State University.” Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory 18, 4
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Grant, Alison.  “Outsourcing ‘Down Under’.”  Against the Grain 9, 5 (November 1997): 22, 26.

Greever, Karen E.  "Nuts and Bolts: Acquisitions and Cataloguing at Kenyon."  Library Collections, Acquisitions & Technical
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Gurevich, Konstantin.  "Russian Monographic Records in the OCLC Database: A Crisis in Shared Cataloging."  Library Resources
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Hale, Dawn.  “Project Muse: Outsourcing Authority Work and Hypertext Markup of Tables of Contents  for Electronic
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“Outsourcing at LITA/LAMA.”  Library Administration & Management 11, 2 (Spring 1997): 123-124.

Partington, Lynne and George Talbot.  “Outsourcing Cataloguing and Physical Processing: A Canadian Experience at the
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