1st Edition

Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development

By Milton T. Wolf, Marjorie E. Bloss Copyright 2000
318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

318 Pages
by Routledge

Ensure the success of your library’s cooperative collection development plan! This solidly researched book brings a fresh perspective to the practical problems of library resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers shrewd advice and creative thinking on the political and administrative issues that often present obstacles. It will help you assess... Read more
Contents
  • Introduction
  • Keynote Address
  • University Libraries as Agents of Change
  • Cooperatives: Approval Plans and Consortia
  • Designing and Implementing a Consortial Approval Plan: The OhioLINK Experience
  • Making the Common Uncommon? Examining Consortial Approval Plan Cooperation
  • Collaborative Purchasing: A Model for Financially Straitened Times
  • Back to the Future: Building the Florida Library Research Consortium
  • Scholarly Communications
  • Last Copy Depository: Cooperative Collection Management Centers in the Electronic Age
  • An Experiment in Cooperative Collection Development: South Asia Vernaculars Among the Research Triangle Universities
  • The Whole is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts
  • Consortia, Cooperatives and Consternation
  • The Printed Book: Still in Need of CCD
  • Grey Literature Poses New Challenges for Research Libraries
  • Challenges and Constraints for History Selectors
  • Collecting Material on Natural Disasters: A Case Study in Co-Operative Collections Development
  • International Perspectives
  • Dancing with Elephants: International Cooperation in an Interdependent (But Unequal) World
  • International Information Exchange: New Configurations for Library Collaboration in South Asian Studies
  • From Farmington Plan to the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance: New Strategies in Developing International Collections
  • Co-operative Collection Development: A UK National Library Perspective
  • Specialized Cooperative Efforts in Collection Development: An Analysis of Three Slavic Programs
  • Libraries of One World: Librarians Look Across the Oceans
  • The Politics of Information Institutions, or I Am Not a Luddite, But...
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Wolf, Milton T.; Bloss, Marjorie E.