Acquisitions and collection development

All librarians and library and information science scholars can benefit from learning more about intellectual freedom.

This study revisits Gabriel Naude's foundational contributions to librarianship, particularly as outlined in his Avis pour dresser une bibliotheque.

If the heart of the library is its collection, this textbook provides the keys to the heart of your library.

In this practical handbook, newly updated for 2010, Carol Alabaster focuses on developing a collection with high-quality materials while saving time and money.

In this practical handbook, newly updated for 2010, Carol Alabaster focuses on developing a collection with high-quality materials while saving time and money.

Copyright law is a critical issue for authors, librarians, publishers, and information vendors.

In this collection of essays written by the former head of the Library of Congress Chinese Collection, Chi Wang chronicles the modest beginnings of the Chinese Collection at the Library of Congress and his crusade to transform it into the largest collection and Chinese cultural presence outside Asia.

Physicians, health researchers, and nurses make extensive use of focus groups.

This volume will help you acquire and manage a strong collection for your library, even when budgets are being cut.

For purposes of accreditation, resource sharing, and institutional mission, librarians need to assess the strengths of their collections in particular subject areas.

This professional reference provides solid advice to academic and public librarians for managing performing arts collections.

Gain the administrative support you need for your media center and library programs with this practical and enlightening guide.

Getting parents to participate in their child's education is easy with these take-home reproducibles!

School library media specialists will find this concepts-based approach to teaching electronic literacy an indispensable basic tool for instructing students and teachers.

Show reluctant teens that reading is not only fundamental-it's also fun!

Libraries can define their service goals to better serve and empower teen girls.

A recipient of the Outstanding Reference Award from the Association of Jewish Librarians in its earlier edition, this updated edition of Judaica Reference Sources maintains its editorial excellence while revising and expanding coverage for the new century.

A companion title to 100 Most Popular Young Adult Authors, this book features another 100 biographical sketches and biographies of popular young adult authors.

A myriad of exciting opportunities for collaboration and networking await you!

By the turn of the twentieth century, Paris was the capital of the art world.

By the turn of the twentieth century, Paris was the capital of the art world.

Have you ever looked at your Library's key performance indicators and said to yourself "e;so what!

This is the first Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology ever to be published.

Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff.

Quality and the Academic Library: Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision provides an in-depth review and analysis of quality management and service quality in academic libraries.

Succession Planning in Canadian Academic Libraries explores the current Canadian academic library environment, and the need for succession planning in that environment.

Digital Disruption and Electronic Resource Management in Libraries identifies issues in the management of e-resources.

Evaluating Demand-Driven Acquisitions examines recent research in demand-driven acquisitions in an effort to develop an evaluation framework specific to demand-driven programs.

Have you ever looked at your Library's key performance indicators and said to yourself "e;so what!

Managing ebook Metadata in Academic Libraries: Taming the Tiger tackles the topic of ebooks in academic libraries, a trend that has been welcomed by students, faculty, researchers, and library staff.

Quality and the Academic Library: Reviewing, Assessing and Enhancing Service Provision provides an in-depth review and analysis of quality management and service quality in academic libraries.

Map Librarianship identifies basic geoliteracy concepts and enhances reference and instruction skills by providing details on finding, downloading, delivering, and assessing maps, remotely sensed imagery, and other geospatial resources and services, primarily from trusted government sources.

How to Build a Digital Library reviews knowledge and tools to construct and maintain a digital library, regardless of the size or purpose.

Advances in Heat Transfer is designed to fill the information gap between regularly scheduled journals and university level textbooks by providing in-depth review articles over a broader scope than is allowable in either journals or texts.

Collection care is a fundamental responsibility for museums and other collecting institutions, and the foundation of collection stewardship is good collection management policies.

Esta obra se propone trazar un recorrido cronológico y relacional entre los diferentes actores, prácticas, productos e instituciones bibliográficas que perfilan el libro a lo largo de su extensa historia.

A fascinating and informative read for librarians, library staff, and MLIS students, this book offers practical information and professional guidelines to examine current issues in censorship and libraries while also enabling readers to consider their own opinions about intellectual freedom.

En esta obra, los lectores encontrarán elementos que permiten comprender algunas de las colecciones históricas más interesantes de la Iberoamérica: las bibliotecas conventuales y religiosas.