This introduction to serials in libraries presents current issues and practices for library school students, beginning serials librarians, and experienced librarians new to serials management. Managing serials has become increasingly difficult as the cost of subscriptions rises faster than the rate of inflation and budgets remain the same or are cut. This covers collection development of print and online serials, principles of bibliographic control, and ways to facilitate and measure library patrons' use of serials. Chapters addressing economics, scholarly publishing, and teaching patrons about serials complement chapters on the day-to-day management of serials in libraries.
As early as the 17th century, serials publication was inextricably linked to the most current developments in nearly all fields of human endeavor. Even today, serials constitute the single most important vehicle for global scholarly communication. However, the past 20 years have shown an increasing tension among the vested interests of authors, publishers, vendors, and, of course, librarians. Serials management, a complex business at the best of times, now faces a bar raised to unprecedented heights.
Author Steve Black covers such traditional aspects of serials management as acquisition, evaluation, and authority control. He uses these and other functions to highlight changes in scholarly communication and, by extension, how these changes necessitate improvements in practice. Peer review, the prevailing winds of rank and tenure, and the increasingly powerful role of consortia are but a few of the challenges discussed. A final section on teaching patrons to use journals reminds the reader that nonscholars too must be a part of the dialogue.
Serials management today includes decision related to online vs. print. While the emphasis is on academic libraries, the place of serials in public and special libraries is covered. The author prepares the serials librarian for a role in library instruction of patrons in libraries.

Serials in Libraries: Issues and Practices

Politics & Social Sciences

Black, Steve

Social Sciences

Libraries Unlimited

Blackie: The Steve Black Story

McKenzie, Arthur

Biographies & Memoirs

Mainstream Publishing

Steve Black's involvement in the game of rugby began when he took up his post with Newcastle Falcons at the inception of the "rugby revolution," which catapulted him into a different sphere. In 2001, he was selected for the British Lions tour of Australia, which was the pinnacle of his career. However, Black's story could have been very different. From the age of 16, he worked as a bouncer for a variety of rough pubs in Newcastle upon Tyne, but differed from the herd in that he followed a strict religious and moral code. When the pub scene became increasingly violent, Black bowed out and went to college, where he attained an honors degree in sports science, then embarked upon a career in sport. This engaging autobiography documents Black's journey from life as a bouncer on the streets of Newcastle to the global sporting achievements that followed.

Blackie: The Steve Black Story (Mainstream Sport)

"This book is a powerful statement about a critical component of a church's right response to abuse in its midst." — Professor Jeffrey R. Baker, Pepperdine University School of Law Are you a good watchman? Are you training those in your home to do the same? Abuse and bullying can be stopped in their tracks with good watchmen at their post. This book deals with the issue of child sexual abuse. It exposes the tactics often employed by abusers and bullies (leading to prevention) and discusses what can be done to reduce the number of survivors each predator has before being stopped.

What Kind of Watchman Are You?

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Trail Press

El manual del emprendedor (Spanish Edition)

Business & Money

Business Development & Entrepreneurship

Planeta Publishing

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