Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet »

Slight-Gibney, Nancy, MA, MLIS (Univ of Oregon)

Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet reveals emerging trends in selecting, acquiring, and accessing electronic journals to help you use and understand these resources for the benefit of your patrons. This book stresses the need for librarians to understand copyright and contract laws, the complexity of the Internet business environment, and the need for constant training in order to take full advantage of electronic information. From Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet, you'll find proven methods, collection development procedures, and problem-solving techniques that will keep you current to the changes in collection librarianship and help you provide patrons with advanced and easy-to-use resources.

Giving you insight into selection policies and plans created by several universities, professionals from Iowa State University, American University, and University of Arizona will give you tips and guidelines for selecting and using electronic journals based on their experiences. With Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet, you'll receive smart, innovative suggestions on how to make the transition into digital resources easier for you and your patrons, including:

• communicating collection development plans with colleagues and considering future and present curriculum needs
• saving time by using web-based catalogs to easily locate and choose journals
• providing access to users with vision impairments with programs such as JAWS, ZoomText, or Outspoken
• receiving user statistics from Internet access to guide your collection process and best serve your clients
• keeping accurate records of purchasing arrangements and accommodating order specifications using the NOTIS system to provide useful management reports
• using current and proposed standards for identifying serials in order to purchase individual electronic journal titles or individual articles
• keeping equipment functioning correctly, gaining hardware and software knowledge, and updating job skills and requirements as keys to managing change, alleviating anxiety, and promoting success

  Exploring technological advances that make access to information easier for you and your patrons, this book discusses the increasing number of Internet links that connect journal citations to original articles. With Periodical Acquisitions and the Internet, you'll be able to choose the electronic journals that are most needed by your patrons and devise a plan to maintain excellence in selection methods and staff efficiency.

Cyril Oberlander

This book is a basic assortment of articles on topics concerning the impact of electronic journals, products, and technologies on periodical acquisition in today's libraries. Information is offered on emerging technologies and how to incorporate them into existing libraries and their collections. The focus is on selection of information of materials available in electronic formats and the mechanics of acquiring access to them. This book is primarily intended for those who work in technical services and reference departments in large, academic libraries. Information may seem general to practicing technical services librarians, although the topics covered will serve as a good refresher. Those who are new to periodicals acquisitions are targeted, and the editor offers understanding of the current state of acquisitions of Internet resources and the impact of the World Wide Web on serials collections. A variety of topics are covered, including the impact and processing of electronic journals, issues in selection and accessing electronic materials, new human and technological models and the role of librarians in resource development, and standards for digital documents and how those standards will affect libraries. If your library subscribes to The Acquisition Librarian, all of the articles contained in this volume can be found in No. 29, 1999. These articles are an introduction to the issues surrounding the acquisition of electronic information for libraries. It is not an exhaustive study but it is a good beginning. Much of the information is not new and that might make for a tedious read for those whose libraries have an existing electronic collection. This is a good descriptionof the varying issues and concerns in acquiring electronic materials for those whose duties do not lie in actual acquisition of electronic media.

ContentsPeriodical Acquisitions and the Internet: An Introduction

• Acquiring Electronic Journals
• Heads Up: Confronting the Selection and Access Issues of Electronic Journals
• Acquisition of Electronic Access to Information: More Money, More Records, More Time
• Information Resources Development for Electronic Publications: An Academic Model
• Government Serials on the Internet: Challenges and Opportunities
• A Survey of Standards for Identifying Serial Items on the Internet
• The Internet: An Essential Tool for Law Library Serials Acquisitions
• Human Factors in the Electronic Technical Services
• Index
• Reference Notes Included