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  • Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection

    Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the first edition of this book demonstrated the power and flexibility of “rightsizing,” an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection. In the five years since Ward’s first edition, the shared print infrastructure has grown in leaps and ... Read more

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  • The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources

    Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues

    Keep up-to-date with the latest in innovative electronic information services!The Changing Landscape for Electronic Resources: Content, Access, Delivery, and Legal Issues focuses on the effects and challenges of providing electronic resources for libraries. The authors are librarians and other professionals with practical experience in current issues and developing trends. With this book, you will ... Read more

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  • Academic E-Books

    Publishers, Librarians, and Users

    Series series Charleston Insights in Library, Archival, and Information Sciences
    Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case ... Read more

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  • The Accidental Librarian

    Are you doing the job of a librarian without the advantage of a library degree or professional experience? Do you wonder what you might have missed in formal library education how highly trained librarians stay on top of their game or what skills and qualities library directors look for? Have we got the book for you! Pamela H. MacKellara 25-year library veteran who has mentored "accidental" ... Read more

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  • Opportunities in Library and Information Science

    Get informed and enjoy a successful, gratifying career!Get started in a position that has a future and is financially rewarding. Opportunities in Library and Information Science Careers provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to enter the fields of library and information science.This career-boosting book will help you:Determine the ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • The Handbook of Journal Publishing

    The Handbook of Journal Publishing is a comprehensive reference work written by experienced professionals, covering all aspects of journal publishing, both online and in print. Journals are crucial to scholarly communication, but changes in recent years in the way journals are produced, financed, and used make this an especially turbulent and challenging time for journal publishers - and for ... Read more

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  • Participatory Networks: The Library as Conversation

    Knowledge is created through conversation. Conversations can take place between friends and colleagues in the "here and now." But, they can also take place over centuries, with the participants changing but the theme remaining the same, and the conversation being recorded in thousands of artifacts, like books, pictures, and digital files. In many conversations users need sophisticated processes to ... Read more

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  • Something’s Gotta Give

    Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011

    Series series Charleston Conference Proceedings
    The theme of the 2011 Charleston Conference, the annual event that explores issues in book and serial acquisition, was "Something's Gotta Give." The conference, held November 2-5, 2011, in Charleston, SC, included 9 pre-meetings, more than 10 plenaries, and over 120 concurrent sessions. The theme reflected the increasing sense of strain felt by both libraries and publishers as troubling economic ... Read more

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  • Adapting to E-Books

    Edited by William Miller, Rita Pellen ...
    This book provides models for acquisitions policies and reports on several surveys of faculty and librarian attitudes toward e-books. It also discusses certain issues in acquiring cataloguing and collection development regarding this important new library resource. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Handbook of Electronic and Digital Acquisitions

    Everything you need to know about adding e-resources to your library's servicesHandbook of Electronic and Digital Acquisitions steers librarians through the process of evaluating, choosing, and managing electronic resources as they expand their collection development policies to include electronic databases. This handy, how-to guide takes a practic ... Read more

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  • Managing the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals and Resources

    A Guide for Library and Information Professionals

    Edited by Maria Collins, Patrick Carr ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Library and Information Science
    Managing the Transition from Print to Electronic Journals and Resources: A Guide for Library and Information Professionals is a collection of essays from the leading authorities on print-to-e-resource transition – from library institutions of all sizes and levels of funding. This book will help librarians and information professionals to design, implement, and manage solutions to effectively ... Read more

    $68.99 USD