Library Acquisition Policies And Procedures

Author : Elizabeth Futas
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCAL:B4327384

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Library Acquisition Policies and Procedures by Elizabeth Futas Pdf

This volume will help you acquire and manage a strong collection for your library, even when budgets are being cut. Topics covered include purchasing materials, formulating selection criteria, sharing materials with other institutions, and evaluating and preserving materials. This edition by the late Elizabeth Futas begins with the results of the author's survey of academic and public libraries. The author then explains how a sharply focused and clearly articulated collections development policy can assist libraries in providing the best possible service in the most cost-effective manner. These and other ideas, practices, and policies in this new edition will allow libraries to continue meeting the needs of their particular constituents, even in uncertain economic times.

Author : Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : MINN:31951000480964B

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Acquisition Policies in ARL Libraries by Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center Pdf

Author : Frank W. Hoffmann,Richard John Wood
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0810851806

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Library Collection Development Policies by Frank W. Hoffmann,Richard John Wood Pdf

This book represents an ongoing effort to fill the void in the library literature relating to collection development policies. The authors, whose experience each spans four decades as library educators and practitioners, created the book--as well as a forthcoming companion volume devoted to school libraries--to assist both library school students and professionals in the field in the compilation, revision, and implementation of collection development policies. Cutting edge trends such as digital document delivery and library cooperation are also covered. Furthermore, given the premise that a well-rounded policy reflects all activities concerning the collection management process--including the evaluation, selection, acquisition, and weeding of information resources--it is hoped that this work will also prove useful to non-librarians possessing some kind of stake in high quality library holdings, such as library board members, politicians, and administrators directly responsible for library operations, and institutional patrons.

Author : Daniel C. Mack
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : 0789014718

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Collection Development Policies by Daniel C. Mack Pdf

Get the tools you need to build a collection development policy that will help your library run efficiently—today and in the future! Considering the amount and variety of topics being published, effectively organizing and guiding a library in today's accelerated world is no easy task. Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collections is the contemporary librarians guide to building or revising a first-rate collection development policy. In this up-to-date book, experts in the field take you step-by-step through the publishing process from writing an initial draft to applying the official copy. Find out what did and did not work in their own practices and get the tools you'll need to tackle any obstacles you may encounter. Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collection covers a variety of topics—including pricing policies and remote storage facilities—without leaving out the traditional concerns of space and funding. This valuable book also addresses the needs of specialized collections with information on acquisition policies for contemporary subjects collections and building subject specific policy statements. Experienced professionals examine the stability of the electronic resources market and explain how the impact of technical services is redefining the access, collection, and cataloging of libraries. Collection Development Policies also provides examples of collection policies currently in use. Read about: the subject specific policy statements of Schreyer Business Library and the women's studies collection at Pennsylvania State University Berkeley's Collection Development Policy (CDPS) and the factors hindering its revision the creation and revision of St. John's University's collection development policy Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science's term project and syllabus—and how it can be applied to functioning libraries the Association of Research Libraries' Web pages—and how they have been influenced by the electronic management revolution Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collection is a valuable resource for anyone selecting and acquiring library materials, maintaining a library collection, or building a collection development policy. The information in this book will help you organize your library collection in a manner that will be beneficial not only to you, but to your clients as well.

Author : American Library Association. Collection Development Committee,David Perkins
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015026836455

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Guidelines for Collection Development by American Library Association. Collection Development Committee,David Perkins Pdf

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Author : Daniel Kinyanjui
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9783668461338

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Elements of a library acquisition policy by Daniel Kinyanjui Pdf

Document from the year 2017 in the subject Library Science, Information- / Documentation Science, , language: English, abstract: A library acquisition policy is a formal statement that guides the library’s acquisition of materials to be added to its collections. It has a number of elements each addressing a specific purpose. This paper looks at the elements included in the policy. According to oxford English dictionary, a policy is a course or principle of action adopted or proposed by an organization or individual. It is basically a concise formal statement of principles or actions which indicate how an organisation will act in a particular area of its operation. A written policy prevents the organization from being driven by events or by individual enthusiasms and from engaging in projects, actions or activities, which may not support the mission of the organization.

Author : Judith M. Nixon,Robert S. Freeman,Suzanne M. Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317985259

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Patron-Driven Acquisitions by Judith M. Nixon,Robert S. Freeman,Suzanne M. Ward Pdf

For over a decade, some academic libraries have been purchasing, rather than borrowing, recently published books requested by their patrons through interlibrary loan. These books had one circulation guaranteed and so appealed to librarians who were concerned about the large percentage of books selected and purchased by librarians but never checked out by their patrons. Early assessments of the projects indicated that patrons selected quality books that in many cases were cross disciplinary and covered emerging areas of scholarly interest. However, now we have a significant database of the ILL purchase records to compare these titles with books selected through normal methods. The projects described in this book present a powerful argument for involving patrons in the book selection process. This book looks at patron-driven acquisitions for printed books at Purdue University, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and the University of Illinois, as well as exploring new programs that allow patrons to select e-books or participate in other innovative ways in building the library collections. This book was published as a special issue of Collection Management.

Author : Kay Ann Cassell,Elizabeth Futas
Publisher : New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Public libraries
ISBN : 1555700608

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Developing Public Library Collections, Policies, and Procedures by Kay Ann Cassell,Elizabeth Futas Pdf

This manual offers help in the development of library collections in the form of logical step-by-step methodologies. The text includes planning and preparing for collection development, gathering and evaluating information and writing the collection development policy.

Author : Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015010552647

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Cooperative Collection Development by Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center Pdf

Author : William A. Katz
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Acquisitions (Libraries)
ISBN : 1560241217

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Vendors and Library Acquisitions by William A. Katz Pdf

Vendors and Library Acquisitions is an enlightening book that addresses the sometimes troublesome relationships between acquisitions librarians and the jobbers with whom they work. Various issues are explored to establish the most efficient and satisfactory methods of selecting a vendor, the way to gain expertise in evaluating the system, and the best ways to reach a successful relationship with the vendor and the public served by the library. The book is divided into three sections, the first of which discusses the selection and evaluation of a vendor, from the vendors's point of view. The chapters in this section cover what a vendor can do, should do, and should not be expected to do. The new technologies are also mentioned, with attention paid to the ways in which they have made the job of the vendor both easier and more difficult. The second section looks at vendor selection and evaluation from the librarians’perspective. Among the topics discussed are: making sure all orders get filled, obtaining material for numerous language groups, containing serials costs, and handling approval plans. Part Three, “Approval Plans and Vendors,” is a study of the similarities that are shared between approval plans, vendors, and librarians. Detailed instructions are given on what and what not to do when setting up an acquisitions program based on approval plans. Non book types of materials are also discussed, which are currently of great interest to many libraries. This practical book will be of great assistance to anyone working with serials and/or books and vendors.

Author : National Agricultural Library (U.S.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Agricultural libraries
ISBN : UIUC:30112074052900

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Library Collection Development Policy by National Agricultural Library (U.S.) Pdf

Author : Rose Mary Magrill,John Boyd Corbin
Publisher : Chicago : American Library Association
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : UOM:39015010366170

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Acquisitions Management and Collection Development in Libraries by Rose Mary Magrill,John Boyd Corbin Pdf

Author : Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center
Publisher : Association of Research Libr
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015002257395

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Collection Development Policies by Association of Research Libraries. Systems and Procedures Exchange Center Pdf

Author : Michelle Flinchbaugh,Chuck Thomas,Rob Tench
Publisher : Purdue University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781612495798

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Transforming Acquisitions and Collection Services by Michelle Flinchbaugh,Chuck Thomas,Rob Tench Pdf

This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions collaborates to support other library functions. For the library acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library director, awareness of different options for effective consortial and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those options in the form of case studies as well as useful analysis of the benefits and challenges of each. By supporting each other’s acquisitions services in a consortium, libraries leverage size to get better prices, and share systems and expertise to maximize resources while minimizing costs. Within libraries, the acquisitions function can be combined with other library functions in a unit with more than one purpose, or acquisitions can develop a close working relationship with another unit to support their work. This book surveys practice at different libraries and at different library consortia, and presents a detailed description and analysis of a variety of practices for how acquisitions units support each other within a consortium, and how they work with other library units, specifically collection management, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and the digital repository, in the form of case studies. A final section of the book covers fundamentals of collaboration.

Author : William T. Henderson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015011017913

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Acquisitions Policies of Academic and Research Libraries by William T. Henderson Pdf