Serials in Libraries Issues and Practices

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Acquisitions & Collection

Reviews:

• [T]he reader is familiarized with ways of dealing with the challenges that serials pose in library management, including changes that have taken place and are taking place in terms of serials publishing, expectations of library users, technological advances, and budgetary pressures. At the same time, the book also provides the reader with a grand picture of the serials environment to facilitate a better understanding of these challenges. The author points out that the most significant challenge to serials management is the increasing tension among the vested interests of authors, publishers, vendors, and, of course, librarians. This book can help serials librarians who face these tremendous challenges of managing and organizing print and online serials make educated decisions on planning and implementing the transition to integrated serials management.
  —Technical Services Quarterly 2007
• Serials in Libraries: Issues and Practices is clearly written and contains information that is useful, especially to those who are new to serials and serials management. Although no one has the magic answer for how best to manage serials or meet all the challenges that surround them, this book offers a good start by introducing the issues and providing a historical context. Black has done his homework in writing this book. It would make a good addition to both professional reading collections and collections that support library education.
  —Technicalities May/June 2007
• Black accomplishes what he sets out to do: prepare a very readable and informative text for library and information science students studying serials....Recommended as an introductory and a refresher professional read.
  —Booklist/Professional Reading March 15, 2007
• Black intends this book for library science students as well as librarians with little experience selecting, acquiring, receiving, and maintaining serials. In this book he introduces the principal issues regarding serials in libraries, first offering a broad view of the subject and relevant definitions, then addressing issues surrounding budgeting for increasing subscription prices, working with remote access serials, using serials, and cataloguing them; when appropriate, he advises best practice. One chapter addresses current issues in scholarly journal publishing. The final chapter discusses methods for teaching patrons how to use both print and remote access serials.
  —Reference & Research Book News February 2007

Table of Contents:

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: The Serials Environment
• Chapter 2: Remote Access Serials
• Chapter 3: Budgeting, Selection, and Deselection of Serials
• Chapter 4: Serials Work Flow in Libraries
• Chapter 5: Bibliographic Control of Serials
• Chapter 6: Economics and the Market for Serials
• Chapter 7: Issues in Scholarly Journal Publishing
• Chapter 8: Use of Serials
• Chapter 9: Teaching Patrons to Use Serials
• Glossary
• Index

PDF Catalogs:
LU Academic Library Spring 2008.pdf	LU Public Library Spring 2008.pdf
LU Textbook Catalog Fall 2007.pdf