Bringing Electronic Resources to the People: The Story of NC LIVE

. Hewitt, Joe A

IFLA Council and General Conference / .
(ReLIS:jul:juljin:6783)

Abstract:

The NC LIVE approach to providing electronic access for the citizens of North Carolina, let me provide a little context. I am not offering NC LIVE as a model, but as an example of how one set of arrangements for providing free access to electronic resources works in a specific situation. Programs such as NC LIVE are influenced by their scale, by the type of content licensed, by the size of the population served, the funding mechanisms of the political entities of which they are a part, the relationships of with the owners or vendors of the information content provided. North Carolina is a state in the southeastern United States that lies between Virginia and South Carolina and is bordered on the west by Tennessee. It is traditionally said of North Carolina that it is a “vale of humility between two mountains of conceit.” There is enough truth to this metaphor that one of the state’s trademark sources of pride is its bootstrapping, “we try harder” approach symbolized by a progressive, low-cost system of higher education to improve the lives of its citizens. The University of North Carolina is the oldest public university in the United States, mandated by the state’s constitution to provide higher education to the state’s citizens at the lowest possible cost. The NC LIVE project lies firmly in that tradition.

Creation: 2005
Keywords: Recursos electrónicos ; Acceso a la información ; Bibliotecas

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