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The library has always been a mediation between the offer that are given and the demand. Today we can
observe interesting changes both in the production of "goods" libraries offer and the infrastructure that we
use to mediate what is offered. Globalization, Internet, large-scale advantages and licence agreements
are all factors that influence library service. Those who publish the content which library provides for its
costumers, have new allies and strategies in a global perspective.
This paper discusses the impact of access and ownership on resource sharing, and the impact of
resource sharing on access and ownership. The initial focus on the paper is on what is happening to
academic and research library collection in Hunagry by looking at the situation in which today-one of
increasing deamnds and decreasing resources. The new initiative called the Academic Resource
Sharing Program is the sum of access AND ownership. The program will carry out four functional
activities tied together, shape the holdings of the libraries participating: funding, evaluation, selction,
weeding and maintenance. Exemples of resource sharing program:
*cooperative acquisition such as electronic journals,
*cooperative data-base licencing
*shared responsibility,
*relocation of collections
Academic administrators see cooperation and resource sharing as a way of saving money. Librarians,
on the other hand, see it as a way of expanding the information sources that can be available to their
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