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To e or not to e, or prefer POD?: The Collection Development Dilemma of Mexican Libraries
By Mauricio Morlett, Collection Development Manager, Latin America
The facts are quite verifiable in both private and public universities, and it is in the latter where we find the largest deficit of required and alternative academic materials.
While the publishing world evolves at the speed of our planet, and the scope of needs of our libraries continues the transformation toward more electronic materials, we face the challenge of increasing our eCollections (with all the technological and practical implications that such a change implies) while under the yoke of budgets that are insufficient or that are geared towards printed materials, the traditional model of education in Mexico.
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