Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs on library budgets and management in this groundbreaking book. Library administrators will benefit from the practical advice in these perceptive chapters evolved from the 1991 University of Oklahoma Libraries and University of Oklahoma Foundation annual conference. Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets presents well-rounded views of the contemporary library budget situation from a variety of contributors, including practicing librarians, researchers, and book vendor representatives. Find applicable strategies for meeting the library budget and management challenges that rising costs will create in the 1990s. Chapters thoroughly cover the relationship between vendors and acquisitions budgets, including current trends affecting the information environment, libraries, and vendors; changes in library-dealer relationships resulting from economic and technological factors; and conditions of research and the dissemination of information from published and unpublished avenues. Library managers and administrators will find pragmatic advice to use in their own libraries, such as suggestions for dealing with service charges and discounts, studies of use patterns and cost-effectiveness of current collection development decisions, vendors’perspective on criteria used to evaluate book vendors, and a collection of 30 different strategies for stretching the acquisitions budget.

Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets (Monograph Published Simultaneously As the Journal of Library Administration , Vol 16, No 3)

Lee, Sul H

Business & Money

Routledge

Electronic resources and collection development

Examine the effects electronic resources have on your library! Electronic Resources and Collection Development examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional collection development policies and practices. Nine acclaimed librarians present their perspectives on the growing trend toward digital materials acquisition that is tipping the scales in favor of “access” in the “ownership vs. access” debate. The book provides insights on the use of electronic resources in major research libraries from data collection by JSTOR, a leading provider of digital resources to academic libraries. A rich and diverse collection of theory, opinion, and observation, Electronic Resources and Collection Development offers a unique understanding of how libraries are meeting the challenge of reshaping their collection development programs with electronic resources—a process that is quickly gaining momentum. Contributors are divided in their beliefs on whether a balance is still possible between print materials and electronic resources in academic libraries. Among the topics they discuss:  the growing demand for e-books  the increase in the use of distance education  digitalizing special collections  building localized collections  use patterns of electronic journals  and much more! Electronic Resources and Collection Development is an essential resource for library deans, directors, and collection development librarians as they assess the levels of change in their libraries.

Electronic Resources and Collection Development

Reference

Distance Learning Library Services: The Tenth Off-Campus Library Services Conference

Discover practical solutions to the challenges facing off-campus librarians! This comprehensive book highlights the problems that face professionals who provide library instruction and information access to off-campus students-and suggests ways to solve them. Geared toward practitioners, this book addresses assessment guidelines for service provision and establishing joint ventures with other institutions to provide more effective services. Each chapter includes a complete bibliography and many contain figures, tables, and graphs that make the information easier to access and understand. Distance Learning Library Services covers a broad spectrum of distance learning issues, including the evaluation of Web resources, changing librarians' perspectives about serving distant learners, and the need for cooperation with faculty to improve information service to distant learners. Each chapter of Distance Learning Library Services was carefully selected by a 24-member board using a juried abstracts process. Here is a small sample of what you'll find in this extraordinary collection: how to develop, implement, and promote library services for distance learners important information on extending library services off-campus an analysis of how academic libraries design and provide content for distance learning Web sites why the distance learning librarian's input is essential to the design of distance learning programs a case study of a partnership between the University of Kansas and XanEdu designed to evaluate their production of course packs and their acceptance by faculty and students a collections development perspective on distance education how Centra Symposium can aid in the delivery of library services considerations, challenges, and concerns when providing distance services to international graduate students an online information literacy tutorial using BlackBoard distance education software quality assurance in distance learn

Politics & Social Sciences

Off-Campus Library Services Conference 200 Cincinnati, Ohio

Social Sciences

Haworth Pr Inc

Improved Access to Information

Connect patrons with the information they seek with these promising electronic tools! Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information focuses on how you can improve access to information using electronic reference resources. This book features nine of America’s leading library administrators who give their perspectives, observations, and stipulations on how to meet the research needs of patrons in a digital age. This timely resource is relevant to senior library administrators in the process of developing electronic tools and services. Improved Access to Information addresses the current library issue of how to utilize scarce resources to provide an ever-increasing amount of electronic information to an ever-expanding user base. The use of portals and their advantages are discussed in detail and from the different perspectives of information providers and users. Several authors offer instructive graphs, tables, and other illustrations to emphasize their findings. In Improved Access to Information, you’ll learn more about: 
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<li> the variety of groups that libraries serve </li>
<li> cooperative collection development </li>
<li> the balance of print and electronic resources </li>
<li> the evolvement of collection development in libraries to the concept of knowledge development </li>
<li> the implementation of portals in research libraries </li>
<li> the factors influencing the selection of electronic resources </li>
<li> digitizing unique collections for preservation and improved access </li>
</ul> The product of the 2003 University of Oklahoma Libraries annual conference, Improved Access to Information offers library administrators new approaches for overcoming the proliferation of electronic information and making it readily available to users. This book will help you provide essential research services to your users and secure your patron base.

Improved Access to Information: Portals, Content Selection, and Digital Information

In times of tight materials budgets, steeply rising prices, and rapidly expanding information formats, library professionals will appreciate the valuable insights into acquisitions processes and management of material costs that are offered in this practical new book. Respected librarians and vendor representatives contributed to this volume--the published proceedings of a recent conference held at the University of Oklahoma. These experts examine approval plans, including a new approach for the publisher-based plan; the impact of inflation, including the increasing costs of titles in selected subject disciplines, causes for the costs, and ramifications for libraries and suppliers; and the process of materials budgeting from the collection of data to the justification of the budget. With increasing demands on librarians to find better budget management strategies and to develop more effective material acquisition processes, an environment has evolved in which librarians and book vendors are forced to examine their methods of acquiring and supplying materials to libraries. Acquisitions, Budgets, and Material Costs: Issues and Approaches provides librarians with readily applicable solutions to today’s acquisition problems.

Acquisitions, Budgets, and Material Costs: Issues and Approaches (Monographic Supplement #2 to Journal of Library Administration)

Access to Scholarly Information (Library Management Series : N0. 9)

Pierian Pr

Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets

Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development explores the role of libraries in acquiring, storing, and disseminating information in different formats to help you better use technology to share scarce resources and connect library users with collections. With an expressed goal of encouraging continued debate and further investigation, this book provides you with developing strategies and procedures to meet the challenges you face as a collection development librarian during this dynamic time. Among the vital concerns addressed are the competition for limited resources, trends in document delivery, the evaluation of document delivery products, and libraries’options for the future. The chapters collected in Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development represent the proceedings of the annual conference held by the University of Oklahoma Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Foundation. The book provides insight into your peers’findings and ideas on: <ul>
<li>access vs. ownership </li> <li>the future role of the bibliographer </li> <li>changes in collection management </li> <li>managing restrained resource budgets </li> <li>an emphasis on the library user as customer </li> <li>the growth and acceptance of document delivery as a component of collection development and ILL </li> <li>electronic publishing and copyright issues </li> <li>commercial document delivery services </li>
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 Access, Resource Sharing, and Collection Development also shows you how to discover and evaluate "free" resources on the Internet, as standards for production, promotion, and maintenance are nonexistent. The challenge of using these materials is being met by developing criteria for selection, looking at cataloging options, and working in cooperation with other institutions. You’ll also learn the different options for document delivery and how to evaluate document delivery products. Among the book’s advice: you should consider the types of document delivery available, examine the benefits of combining outside services with in-house systems, review the criteria for selecting technologies and suppliers, and explore examples of institutions creating customized systems.

Access, Resource Sharing and Collection Development

Computers & Technology

Computer Science

CRC-Press

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