Declining Acquisitions Budgets: Allocation, Collection Development, and Impact Communication - Couverture souple
Synopsis
Have the high costs of information and reductions in library budgets put you in a dilemma? Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a key resource in beginning the task of re-thinking traditional methods of collection development and maintenance. The contributing authors to this volume provide you with thought-provoking chapters which touch on library, business, and societal issues as related to your work as a library administrator. They enable you to take a more economical approach to developing and maintaining a great collection--with a smaller budget.Specific areas covered by the contributors include:
- ideas for the director facing an acquisitions dilemma
- a unique formula for maintaining book collections
- new strategies for reevaluating acquisitions budgeting
- allocating acquisitions budgets with flexibility
- new practices in acquisitions budgeting based on the Ohio State University libraries’indexing system
- access vs. ownership in science collection development
- a project outline to gather circulation information for use in collection development
- what services a subscription vendor can offer in the collection assessment and evaluation processLibrary professionals throughout the country need to learn how to survive in a world of rising information costs and reductions in library budgets. Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a step in the right direction, with insightful strategies and ideas to help readers negotiate their way through these troublesome times.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
Have the high costs of information and reductions in library budgets put you in a dilemma? Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a key resource in beginning the task of re-thinking traditional methods of collection development and maintenance.
The contributing authors to this volume provide you with thought-provoking chapters which touch on library, business, and societal issues as related to your work as a library administrator. They enable you to take a more economical approach to developing and maintaining a great collection--with a smaller budget.
Specific areas covered by the contributors include:
- ideas for the director facing an acquisitions dilemma
- a unique formula for maintaining book collections
- new strategies for reevaluating acquisitions budgeting
- allocating acquisitions budgets with flexibility
- new practices in acquisitions budgeting based on the Ohio State University libraries’indexing system
- access vs. ownership in science collection development
- a project outline to gather circulation information for use in collection development
- what services a subscription vendor can offer in the collection assessment and evaluation process
Library professionals throughout the country need to learn how to survive in a world of rising information costs and reductions in library budgets. Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a step in the right direction, with insightful strategies and ideas to help readers negotiate their way through these troublesome times.
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