156 Pages
by
Routledge
156 Pages
by
Routledge
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Here is a timely new book on the pressing legal and ethical issues that are faced by librarians on a daily basis. Chapters written by librarians, lawyers, accountants, and business people discuss the concept of acquisitions as a business, address some of the ramifications of the climate in which practicing acquisitions librarians now find themselves, and examine some of the skills that will be... Read more
Contents
Introduction
- Current Antitrust Issues in Publishing
- Acquisitions and the FTC: A Brief Introduction
- Publisher Advertising: Proposal for a New Era
- Plain English for Publishers: An Articulation of Billing Problems
- The Library Perspective on Non-Cash Charitable Contributions
- Gifts--The Answer to a Problem
- The Legalities of Acquiring Software for an Academic Library
- Taking License: Librarians, Publishers, and the New Media
- Journeymen of the Printing Office
- Contracts and Ethics in Library Acquisitions: The Expressed and the Implied
- Obscenity and Juveniles: A Look at Commonwealth vs. American Booksellers
- Claiming Periodicals: The “Trembling Balance” in the “Feud of Want and Have”
- Stretching the Acquisitions Budget by Negotiating Subscription Agency Service Charges
- The Ethics of Library Discard Practices
Biography
Katina Strauch, Bruce Strauch
