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AccessMichigan:
The Challenges and Rewards of
Statewide Library Cooperation

George Needham
Vice President, Member Services
OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.

Presented at NOVEL Statewide Forum, May 17, 2001, Crowne Plaza Hotel, Albany, New York

The presentation is available in two formats:

Table of Contents

  1. AccessMichigan: The Challenges and Rewards of Statewide Library Cooperation
  2. Michigan and New York libraries: A brief comparison
  3. The Michigan landscape in 1996
  4. PPT Slide
  5. The harmonic convergence
  6. Building the community vision
  7. Statewide cooperation in three (un)easy lessons
  8. Implementing the vision
  9. PPT Slide
  10. AccessMichigan in 1997
  11. Institutionalizing the Vision
  12. Bear traps
  13. Lessons learned
  14. State library database licensing, 1999
  15. AccessMichigan in 2001
  16. A few useful addresses
  17. Good luck, New York

 

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