Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development - Couverture souple

Wolf, Milton T.; Bloss, Marjorie E.

 
9780789011596: Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 078901159X ISBN 13 : 9780789011596
Editeur : Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Ensure the success of your library's cooperative collection development plan! This solidly researched book brings a fresh perspective to the practical problems of library resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers shrewd advice and creative thinking on the political and administrative issues that often present obstacles. It will help you assess your library's situation, identify new opportunities, and find powerful new ways to perform the essential tasks of archiving, preservation, and digitization.By making wise use of new technologies, local libraries can offer international resources and services unimaginable just a few decades ago. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world, including the US, Eastern Europe, the UK, the nations of the Pacific Rim, and South Asia. It examines the costs and benefits of regional, national, and international cooperatives and debates the varying uses of centered and decentralized models of resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles, including:

  • lengthy approval processes
  • fixation on volume count instead of quality
  • faculty and commercial resistance to reforming scholarly communications
  • publishing monopolies and rising prices Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development defines the issues that need to be addressed by the library community to foster the advancement of cooperative collection development and suggests a series of steps that can be taken to ensure its future success and continued growth. It is an essential guide to the world of resource sharing.

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À propos de l?auteur

Wolf, Milton T.; Bloss, Marjorie E.

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Éditeur
Routledge
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
078901159X
ISBN 13 
9780789011596
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
318
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780789011589: Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development: Papers from the Aberdeen Woods Conference

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0789011581 ISBN 13 :  9780789011589
Editeur : Routledge, 2001
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