
Issues in Collection Management
Librarians, Booksellers, Publishers
Murray S. Martin(Editor)
JAI Press Inc.
Published in January 1996
Book
Hardback
310 pages
978-1-55938-608-1 (ISBN)
Description
Part of a series which discusses the foundations of library and information science, this volume focuses on issues in collection management, covering such topics as acquisitions and development and its place in the library and cultural diversity as a collection.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 230 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
478 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55938-608-1 (9781559386081)
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Content
Information does not a library make - three outrageous propositions, Richard Abel; pricing electronic reference works - the dilemma of the mixed library and consumer marketplace, Clifford A Lynch; Acquisitions and collection development - an overview, Julia Gelfand; the place of acquisitions and collection development in the library, Murray S Martin; serials review as a collection development and acquisitions tool, Donna Cohen; who makes the decision? time to take selection of primary vendors out of acquisitions and serials departments?, Ronald L Ray; cultural diversity as a collection development goal - a return to issues and strategies, Rachelle Moore and Harry Llull; the faculty and the library - an overview, Murray S Martin; the centennial science and engineering liaison model, Andrea R Testi; engineering journal cancellation in an academic environment, Connie Wu; faculty liaison models - one alternative, Sever Bordeianu; the publishing world - an overview, Murray S Martin; books in limbo - book distribution and supply problems that affect academic libraries, Arlene Moore Sievers; looking for mutual gains - a different approach to problem solving between publishers and library wholesalers, Glen M Secor; the distribution spectrum - from ultraviolet publishers to infrared libraries, John Perry Smith; the new alliance - librarians and university presses, Julia A Gammon; publishers' surveys of libraries, Joe A Hewitt.