id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-12355 Ellsworth, Dianne The Academic Library Looks at Union Lists 1971-11-01 4 .pdf application/pdf 2324 103 55 Because expenditure of staff time is an important factor in such participation, various kinds of union lists are examined in order to determine the most effective and least costly ways in which a library can have a list and attendant benefits for its own purpose, and also join in cooperative efforts. Three major developments have prompted such a discussion: ( 1) the proliferation of regional lists of serials; ( 2) the de- velopment of a program for a national serials data bank; and ( 3) the current state of computer t echnology as it re- lates to union lists. cache/crl-12355.pdf txt/crl-12355.txt