Serials Management in Academic Libraries

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Serials Management in Academic Libraries A Guide to Issues and Practices

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Jean Walter Farrington

Book Code: FSF/

ISBN: 0-313-27378-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-27378-0

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192 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 7/30/1997

List Price: $78.00 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Also Available: Ebook

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: The Greenwood Library Management Collection

Awards:

Library Journal Year's Best Professional Reading, 1997

Reviews:

[A] valuable guide to current practices in acquiring, processing, and accessing serials material.... it examines issues influencing serials operations, such as ownership vs. access, outsourcing of cataloging, document delivery, and electronic texts.... Providing a textbook approach to the subject, this work will be very useful to both beginning library science students and those involved in any aspect of serials management, regardless of experience level.
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Library Journal
A good introduction to serials librarianship.
—C&RL News
Managing serials in academic libraries is one of the most difficult and complicated aspects of technical services. This book provides a broad overview of serials management in academic libraries coping with reduced budgets while being expected to do more.
—Technical Services Quarterly
...provides an overview and some basic background for all of the trends and topics that a well-informed serials manager must know about in order to be prepared for the imminent changes in the academic serials environment....a recommended read for those academic professionals who realize the need to keep up with the inevitable changes to come.
—Collection Management

Description: In the decade ahead, libraries will have to do more with less. Because the cost of journals, particularly in the sciences, has skyrocketed, library budgets are able to buy fewer serials. At the same time, library budgets have been reduced, so that fewer staff and less detailed cataloging are becoming the way of the future. And while many serials remain available in printed form, publishers have been providing a growing number of electronic journals, and some experts believe that serials will eventually cease to exist in printed form. While budgetary restrictions and the growth of electronic publishing will continue to affect all areas of academic librarianship, serials management in particular will demand a great amount of adaptability and flexibility. This professional reference is a guide to the many evolving issues in serials management, as well as a source of practical information designed to assist academic librarians in successfully managing their serials in a rapidly changing environment. Some of the key issues discussed include access versus ownership, the electronic dissemination of texts, document delivery systems, standards for the electronic transfer of data, and the debate over the outsourcing of cataloging. Fortunately, many of the issues concerning serials management readily lend themselves to automation. Thus, this volume gives considerable attention to automation as a solution to many of the problems confronting librarians. Each chapter includes references to current literature, and the volume concludes with a selected bibliography of works for further reading.

Table of Contents:

Introduction
Serials Automation: The Last Frontier
Changing Roles, Changing Shape: Organizing and Staffing Serials Operations
Management of Serials Information in a Changing Environment
Measuring Journal Use: Why, How, and for What Purpose?
Collection Development or Collection Access: Serials Ownership in the Millennium
Acquiring Serials in Paper: Making the Most of the Options
Serials in Many Forms: Newspapers, Depository Publications, and Computer Files
The Electronic Explosion: From E-Mail to World Wide Web
Serials Cataloging in the Twenty-First Century: A Multiplicity of Challenges
Selected Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 96-37648

LCC Class: Z675

Dewey Class: 025


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