The Global Resources Network is both an umbrella for collaborative projects and a broad framework that supports enhanced bibliographic access and finding aids; rapid delivery systems; the development of electronic and digital resources; and the establishment of international partnerships, to achieve the goals of the network.
GRN will actively promote activities that address the "crisis in foreign acquisitions" through wide-ranging cooperative measures. These will include efforts aimed at facilitating acquisition, assessment, preservation, and dissemination of resources.
GRN will encourage the development and collaborative utilization of assessment tools that accurately demonstrate collection strengths, gaps, and overlaps and can lead to more efficient and distributed collecting activities. Based on its experience in developing distributed collection programs, GRN will articulate requirements and promote practical models for cooperative international collection development on a broader level.
In terms of access, GRN will coordinate activities with the Center
for Research Libraries in facilitating enhanced access to existing and
prospective collections of global resources. These activities will include
encouraging the acquisition of "digital rights" and permissions
to deliver resources to scholars in the most effective format; recommending
specifications and procedures for systematic digital capture, dissemination,
and storage of source materials in traditional formats; promoting acquisition
and persistent archiving of source materials that are born-digital;
and actively support electronic document delivery initiatives among
Network partners to facilitate access to materials not held in North
America.
Last updated April 27, 2006
