Collection Management in Academic Libraries - Hardcover

Jenkins, Clare

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0566081164 ISBN 13: 9780566081163

Publisher: Gower Publishing Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Economic constraints, curriculum changes, growing student numbers and the information explosion resulting from technological developments have put a higher priority on the successful management of increasingly diverse library collections. This new edition of Collection Management in Academic Libraries, written by senior university librarians and expert commentators from both the UK and North America, provides an enlightening overview of collection management policy and practice in academic libraries today.

Though recognizing the continuing importance of traditional printed holdings, the book highlights the central role now played in academic libraries by electronic information. It explores possible scenarios for the future and discusses the management of access to remote sources of information, and issues relating to infrastructure support. New chapters are included on the management of electronic information, learning support, document delivery strategies, preservation and disaster planning, and collection management for the twenty-first century. The chapters on organization of collection management, finance and budgeting, performance measurement, serials management, stock retention and relegation have been revised in the light of recent changes in collection priorities and user demand.

Collection Management in Academic Libraries is chiefly aimed at library managers and students of library and information science. Those responsible for acquisitions, reader services and serials management will also find that lessons from the experience and research described in the book will help to equip them better for the challenges in their own institutions.

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About the Author

Clare Jenkins is currently Assistant Director of Information Services, Collection Management Division, at the University of Birmingham. She formerly worked as Executive Secretary of CURL (Consortium of University Research Libraries), and at the libraries of the London School of Economics and the University of Southampton, where she held senior management posts with collection management responsibility.

Mary Morley is University Librarian, Loughborough University, where she formerly held the posts of Acquisitions Librarian and Sub-Librarian, Collection Management.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gower Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0566081164
• ISBN 13: 9780566081163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 314