... Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections Chicago, IL American Library Association 2012 167 pp. 978-0-8389-1153-2 $60 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 --> Reference collections Collection management Reference librarians ...

... and librarians, to the benefit of the art of music. Practical implications For cost‐saving purposes alone, cooperative collection management of music is generally too troublesome to undertake. Assessment, in terms of mutual benefit of access, use, and conceptual continua across collections, is practically...

... Databases Academic libraries Collection management A total of 26 initial messages were sent out. One library declined to participate because it did not have a Chinese Studies librarian on staff at the time of the survey. Completed surveys were received from 14 libraries, for a response rate of 56 per...

... fund managers advises an assistant director, and carries information back and forth to front‐line selectors in an effort to retain their participation. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Reference services Digital libraries Collection management Academic libraries Selection Bibliographies...

...Barbara Sen David   Spiller . Providing Materials for Library Users . London : Library Association Publishing   2000 . 204pp. , ISBN: 1856043851   £29.95 Library materials Collection management Materials management This book is a welcome development from...

... collection management, benefits both library staff and patrons by making the library a more efficient place to retrieve information. Among Las Vegas’ most recent architectural and technological marvels is Lied Library, the new main library at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). First opened...

...Barbara Foster Edited by Clare   Jenkins and Mary   Morley . Collection Management in Academic Libraries (2nd ed.) . Aldershot : Gower   1999 . 302 pp. , ISBN: 0566081164   £55 hardback Collection management Academic libraries The second edition...

... access collection. Collection management Academic libraries Serials User studies Although use studies have long been employed to gather data for making relegation or retention decisions, considerable care must be taken in interpreting the results of these studies. For instance, it was shown...

...Mike Freeman Collection management A new quarterly journal focussing on collections – contents, use, cataloguing, accessing – and covering not just academic collections but those of public and special libraries too. While the traditional humanities are covered, the range extends...

.../Fiction Management: Education and Training . New York, NY : The Haworth Press   1998 . 120 pp. , ISBN: ISBN 0‐7890‐0391‐0   $29.95 (outside USA $36) includes bibliographical references and index, co‐published simultaneously as The Acquisitions Librarian, No. 19, 1998 Collection...

... of their retrospective journals. The results can be seen in a pie‐chart form in Figure 2 . © MCB UP Limited 1999 Academic libraries Collection management Measurement Serials Statistics User studies Serials librarians in academic libraries are having to reduce their spending on paper journals...

... libraries Collection management Electronic publishing Planning This report is a detailed examination of trends in electronic publishing and their effect on scholarly communication. For libraries, and the British Library in particular, the dilemma of whether to acquire information in digital format...

... for the study. Concludes that the model is adequate for use in libraries in developing countries. Academic libraries Brazil Collection management Developing countries Models A great variety of elements has been traditionally used to evaluate libraries, among which the size of the collection has...

..., and, for the teacher and librarian, durability and life expectancy, can be the sole criterion for teenage boys. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Collection management Leisure Libraries Reading United Kingdom Young people It has sometimes appeared that public libraries have been uncertain how to provide...

..., Spirou and Pilote. Also, a great percentage of adult comics is published in hardback, which has contributed to bringing comics a higher status among readers. © MCB UP Limited 1994 Brazil Collection management Comic books Libraries Publishing Nowadays, library collections...

... and completeness of the sets should be maintained[ 2, p. 248 ]. Academic libraries Automation Books Cataloguing Collection management Developing countries Policy Purchasing Like special libraries, academic libraries are charged with the responsibility to provide adequate information...

... up more vehemently at budget appropriation meetings. © MCB UP Limited 1990 Collection management Librarians Libraries Library users FEATURES "PARIS IS A VERITABLE OCEAN" (Balzac, Père Goriot) A meeting of marine and freshwater librarians in Paris! The Seine is obvious but where...