Authors: Maureen Pastine
ISBN-13: 9780789003850, ISBN-10: 0789003856
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: January 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)
A guide to balancing traditional collection issues with electronic access and document delivery demands, Collection Development: Access in the Virtual Library helps librarians find solutions and approaches for dealing with changes occurring in interlibrary loan, regional consortia, commercial vendor relations, and ownership versus access. Its sophisticated analyses offer you clarity of vision, the wisdom of experience, and solid advice as you are transported into the 'virtual library environment’with its variety of expectations, service complexities, and information technologies.
Interested in reducing local collecting costs while expanding the universe of information and knowledge available to your primary clientele? Collection Development will show you just how many options are out there for enhancing your virtual environment, as it explores:
Still not convinced that this is the book you need to improve access in your library? Think again! Collection Development will help you with library control and ordering articles via commercial document delivery; it will help you develop coherent and intuitive ways of organizing and presenting available electronic resources; it will help you work with administrators and funding agents to attain a balance between traditional library resources and emerging information technologies, and much, much more!
Six essays discuss the changing nature of library use and acquisition methods due to the increasing reliance on technological methods of information storage. Issues addressed include the role of physical facilities and space for technology, staff and print resources, the affects of shifting paradigms on public staffing, library consortia and collection patterns, and the role of university libraries for remote learners. Also included are two annotated bibliographies listing related sources in the U.S. and Britain. Also published as v.22, no.1/2, 1997. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Introduction | 1 | |
Competition, Collaboration, and Cost in the New Knowledge Environment | 31 | |
Collection Issues in the New Library Environment | 47 | |
Integrating Electronic Resources into Collection Development Policies | 65 | |
Managing the CD-ROM Collection Development Process: Issues and Alternatives | 77 | |
Common Ground: Intersections in the Work of Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians | 103 | |
Collecting Bits: The Internet as a Library Resource | 121 | |
The Balancing Act: Collection Development in Support of Remote Users in an Extended Campus Setting | 139 | |
Conclusion: Future Directions - Questions | 153 | |
Guide to Collection Development Bibliography | 157 | |
Collection Development: Past and Future Bibliography | 179 |