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Book SynopsisEmerging Patterns of Collection Development in Expanding Resource Sharing, Electronic Information, and Network Environment presents readers with the most important and relevant collection development and networking issues facing the library community today. Presented to encourage librarians and students to continue investigation and discussion of these critical issues, this book explores the relationship between electronic resources, resource sharing, and collection development from the perspectives of librarians, vendors, and network administrators. Along the way, readers learn how to save precious budgetary dollars and improve collections by utilizing resource-sharing technology to provide library users with access to information.A particularly enlightening study included in Emerging Patterns of Collection Development in Expanding Resource Sharing, Electronic Information, and Network Environment shows how Louisiana State University Libraries, wrestling with the issue of own
Table of ContentsContentsIntroduction
- Library Collections and Distance Information: New Models of Collection Development for the 21st Century
- Library Collections at Century?s End: Lessons from American Express
- Designing Serial Collections for the 21st Century
- Will Electronic Information Finally Result in Real Resource Sharing?
- Friends or Predators: Evaluating Academic Periodicals Price Histories as a Means of Making Subscription Decisions
- Collecting, Sharing, and Networking: The Roles and Responsibilities of a National Library
- Emerging Patterns of Partnership in Collection Development: A Subscription Vendor?s Perspective
- New Partners for Collection Development
