The design of a Cooperative Acqusition Programme (CAP) for a regional network -- ZALINET -- in China is discussed. The model is presented both descriptively and quantitatively ofr the purpose of design and planning. The types of participating libraries and potential network users are identified in the following sectors: research, education, production, government department, and marketing. A descriptive model has been worked out for the distribution of information resources. The assignment of responsibility for collection and allocation of information resources should be based on: the assessment of the colletion strenght and the subject biases of the libraries and information centres; the identification of geographical charactersisties of information resourc distribution; the differentiation of sector characteristics of information resources distribution; the identification of the resources already available, both human and material and estimation of future potential. In the descriptive model issues of CAP in ZALINET are proposed. The mathematical model intends to work out the optimum solution about total network coverage, overlapping degree of titles among libraries, and the duplication of titles with the libraries. The CEB model should be able to help the network manager decide how to carry out the cooperative acquistion program cost-effectively.
Budiwidjaja, Arif (author / Chief Librarian, Faculty of Agriculture, Gadjah Mada University) and Evans, James F. (author / Head, Teaching and Research, Agricultural Communications, University of Illinois)
Format:
Proposal
Language:
Multilingual
Publication Date:
1982
Published:
Indonesia
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 123 Document Number: D11166
Notes:
From the International Programs file of the Office of Agricultural Communications and Education, College of Agriculture, University of Illinois., This project file relates to research and planning by a joint faculty study team from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. The study team embarked on it with the belief that a literature identification project involving Indonesian agricultural communication is an integral part of any effort to establish academic programs of agricultural communication teaching and research. The file contains correspondence, an initial list of more than 200 documents identified in the GMU Library System, and a preliminary proposal.
