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creased economic support for libraries and reduced library budgets.

. An increase in reliance on outside vendors for products as well as services.

. A new focus on unique locally held collections to be digitized and made available to users.

. Continued emphasis on the online catalog within a distributed networked environment.

Byrd, et al (2006) suggest further that based on these trends, the need for cataloging expertise at academic and other libraries will not be diminished and that fut

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