ABSTRACT
Individual libraries will find that devoting scarce resources to preserving massive and heavily redundant holdings of printed materials will become untenable. Given the scale of the print corpus, long-term preservation of even the most important research materials will have to be a cooperative effort. In the past there have been many obstacles to collective action, including inadequate infrastructure, high costs, and traditional notions of ownership. New approaches to managing resources, however, brought about by networked technology and practices in the global energy and natural resource sectors, might make cooperative effort more plausible than in the past. [Article copies available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service: 1-800-HAWORTH. E-mail address: <docdelivery@haworthpress.com> Website: <https://www.HaworthPress.com> © 2002 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved.]
