Abstract
Libraries will play a key role in providing access to data bases, but not by subscribing to tape services and establishing local processing centers as is commonly assumed. High costs and the nature of the demand will make this approach unfeasible. It is more likely that the library's reference staff will develop the capability of serving as a broker between the local campus user and the various regional or specialized retail distribution centers which exist or will be established.
Highlights
Libraries will play a key .role in providing access to data bases, but not by subscribing to tape services and establishing local processing centers as is commonly assumed
0 It will speculate on how this field might develop and will suggest a less expensive and more feasible strategy which libraries may use to gain access to these increasingly important bibliographic services
The key question of who will pay for these new services, the user or the institution, will be discussed
Summary
Libraries will play a key .role in providing access to data bases, but not by subscribing to tape services and establishing local processing centers as is commonly assumed. Some of the most useful and important data bases available are those that have been developed by the indexing and abstracting services as byproducts of their efforts to automate the production of their regular printed publications. Imaginative and forward-looking librarians and computer people at various universities applied for and received grants to establish centers where these new data tapes could be used to provide current awareness and retrospective search services to users.
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