1st Edition

Electronic Collection Management

By Suzan D Mcginnis Copyright 2000
174 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

Build and manage your collection of digital resources with these successful strategies! This comprehensive volume is a practical guide to the art and science of acquiring and organizing electronic resources. The collections discussed here range in size from small college libraries to large research libraries, but all are facing similar problems: shrinking budgets, increasing demands, and rapidly... Read more
Contents
  • Preface
  • Cultivating Our Garden: The Impact of Digital Full Text Periodicals on the Liberal Arts College Library
  • Information Technology and Collection Development Departments in the Academic Library: Striving to Reach a Common Understanding
  • SPARC: An Alternative Lifestyle for Academic Libraries
  • Challenges in Electronic Collection Building in Interdisciplinary Studies
  • Collection Development in the New Millennium-Evaluating, Selecting, Annotating, Organizing for Ease of Access, Reevaluating, and Updating Electronic Resources
  • Collection Development and Organization of Electronic Resources
  • Distance Learning and the Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries
  • Some Issues for Collection Developers and Content Managers
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Suzan D. McGinnis