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istl-2617		Collection Development in the Internet Age			.html	text/html	820	33	49	Science and Technology Librarianship Spring 2001 DOI:10.5062/F4XS5SCR Collection Development in the Internet Age: An Introduction David Flaxbart Editorial Board Member Issues in Science and Technology Librarianship flaxbart@uts.cc.utexas.edu Libraries are approaching the time, perhaps not too distant, when the balance of our budgets will tip from hardcopy collections to leased digital information -- when we pay more for access to databases and online resources than we do for putting books and journals on the shelves. Whether we are selectors, administrators, reference librarians, catalogers, or one of the new breed of licensing gurus or webmasters, much of our time is spent dealing with questions like these: what is digital information, and how can it be incorporated into our library? can existing collection development policies be adapted to these new formats, or must we start from scratch? what should we buy, what should we lease, what should we not buy or lease, and how do we decide?	cache/istl-2617.html	txt/istl-2617.txt