Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development
Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development

Author: Milton T. Wolf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-18

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1317951956

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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.

Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development
Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development

Author: Milton T. Wolf

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780789011596

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This solidly researched book 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. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world. 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. It offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles to success, including lengthy approval processes, fixation on volume count instead of quality, faculty resistance to reforming scholarly communications, and publishing monopolies.

Collaborative Collection Development
Collaborative Collection Development

Author: James Burgett

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2004-06-14

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780838908815

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Collaborative collection development : past, present, future -- No one said it would be easy : barriers and benefits -- Fundamentals : the principles of CCD -- The state of the art : varieties of CCD practice -- Prerequisites : resources required to initiate and sustain CCD -- Stategy : creating the framework for an effective CCD partnership -- Governance : CCD documentation and legal agreements -- Investing in success : economics of CCD -- Outreach : promoting and publicizing CCD -- CCD's impact : assessment and evaluation -- Cultivation : sustaining CCD in the local library.

Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries
Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries

Author: Brian J. Baird

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-02-09

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1538109603

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Designed as a “how-to” manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and establishing goals for continual improvement over time. Straightforward and pragmatic, it helps a library to reduce immediate and long-term preservation costs, and strengthen a library’s collection development goals. Topics include: Preservation in the digital age Establishing long-term preservation goals Environmental conditions Preservation needs of specific collections Understanding use patterns for library materials Identifying potential threats to a collection Recognizing readily available preservation resources Almost 50 photographs, figures, checklists, and other tools make this a practical guide libraries will use on a day-to-day basis.

Collection Development in the Digital Age
Collection Development in the Digital Age

Author: Maggie Fieldhouse

Publisher: Facet Publishing

Published: 2011-12-20

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1856047466

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This topical edited collection is cross-sectoral and international in scope, drawing together the perspectives of practitioners and academics at the forefront of modern collection development. They explore how practitioners can take an active role influencing strategy in this new environment, draw on case studies that illustrate the key changes in context, and consider how collection development might evolve in the future. The collection is divided into four sections looking at the key themes: • The conceptual framework including a review of the literature • Trends in library supply such as outsourcing and managing suppliers • Trends in electronic resources including the open access movement and e-books • Making and keeping your collection effectively including engaging with the user-community and developing commercial skills. Readership: LIS students and all practitioners involved in collection development and management in academic, school, public, commercial and other special libraries.

Shared Collections
Shared Collections

Author: Dawn Hale

Publisher: American Library Association

Published: 2016-06-20

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13:

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Libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a country. As a strategy for saving space and money while expanding access to additional materials and resources, the value of shared collections is indubitable. This collected volume from the Association of Library Collections & Technical Services (ALCTS) spotlights the histories and experiences of several collaborations at academic libraries. Contributors share winning strategies for intentional decision-making in developing and managing shared collections, both print and digital, with expert guidance such as: analysis of six consortia case studies, ranging from giants like CIC and CARL to regional collaborations like the State of Maine and Manhattan research librarieselements to address in a memo of understanding among participating institutionsrisk assessment methodologies that enable institutions to focus local resources where they will provide the greatest return; andcosts to anticipate for budgeting, such as collection analysis, space, validation, transport, staff, and administration.With practical advice on issues such as governance and business models, demand driven acquisition, rare works, and access, this monograph is a valuable resource for academic library directors, administrators, and collection development leaders.