Change and adaptation in the technical services of a group of mid-sized academic libraries : a fourteen-year overview

Abstract

This paper presents a multiple case study of evolution, adaptation and change in the cataloguing and other technical services functions in a selected group of medium-sized academic libraries in the United States and Canada. The study is based on the analysis and comparison of the responses given by this group of libraries to what are essentially the same survey questions at a fourteen-year interval, in 1989 and in 2003.