...Mike Freeman Carol A. Singer 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...

... 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...

... that the guidelines were out‐of‐date and should be revisited, while others specified that their policies were the same for all Chinese materials, regardless of format. Electronic journals China Databases Academic libraries Collection management As universities with East Asian libraries support...

.... Successful engagement with change includes an appreciation of users’ expectations, and a positive attitude. Reference services Digital libraries Collection management Academic libraries Selection Bibliographies © MCB UP Limited 2003 Information seekers today have far greater...

...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. “We’re constantly looking for ways to streamline our processes and provide a higher level of service to our patrons,” says Marks, who has seen first‐hand many of the benefits...

...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...

... of 300 (3 uses, 1cm of shelf space) would be selected for retention before such prestigious multidisciplinary science serials as Nature and Science (Table I). © Company 2000 Collection management Academic libraries Serials User studies Although use studies have...

...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...

... bibliographical references and index, co‐published simultaneously as The Acquisitions Librarian, No. 19, 1998 Collection management Education Training From the title of this book, one could be forgiven for assuming that it would focus on the education and training of librarians involved...

... are currently employed by the “new universities” in the UK. Stresses the need for accountability and the importance of use measurement to validate cancellation decisions. Academic libraries Collection management Measurement Serials Statistics User studies Serials librarians in academic libraries...

... 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...

... of the former than the latter. As was described by Line[ 20 , 21 ], Budd[ 22 ] and Hogeweg‐De Haart[ 23 ], the main differences between researchers in the humanities and their colleagues in other sciences are: © MCB UP Limited 1996 Academic libraries Brazil Collection management Developing...

... both a more reliable total and a more accurate picture of each boy′s overall reading pattern than could have been obtained by asking simply “How long do you spend in reading each week?” © MCB UP Limited 1995 Collection management Leisure Libraries Reading United Kingdom Young people...

... , pp. 2 ‐ 10 . Brazil Collection management Comic books Libraries Publishing Nowadays, library collections are providing materials other than books to their customers. The number of libraries which have a varied range of materials in their collections increases day by day. Special...

... should also assign a high priority to the prompt acquisition of current materials and at the same time ensure the provision of relevant materials needed for teaching research. Academic libraries Automation Books Cataloguing Collection management Developing countries Policy Purchasing 1...

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