Abstract:
Libraries today buy, subscribe, license and accumulate information in an unprecedented
array of content categories or publication types, and in a rapidly proliferating mix of
formats (digital as well as print). There is a great deal of cultural divide and philosophical
deviation between the traditional information resources being handled by libraries for
centuries now and the new genre of electronic and digital information being sourced and
accessed. In the traditional paradigm, the books and journals bought and subscribed to by
the libraries were naturally owned by them, allowing them to make the best use of the
resources within the ‘fair use’ clause or principle...
