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Pappas, Marjorie – School Library Monthly, 2009
For those who tend to purchase many books for personal or professional use, the eBook reader would easily pay for itself within a year. The two leading brands of eBook readers today are the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Book Reader. Both are similar in size, weight, and purchase price. The Kindle includes a keyboard while the Reader provides access…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Library Development, Library Services
Viner, Jane; Lucas, Amanda; Ricchini, Tracey; Ri, Regina – International Association of School Librarianship, 2010
This workshop paper explores the Web 2.0 journey of the MLC Libraries' teacher-librarians, librarian, library and audio visual technicians. Our journey was initially inspired by Will Richardson and supported by the School Library Association of Victoria (SLAV) Web 2.0 professional development program. The 12 week technological skills program…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, School Libraries, Internet
Grigson, Anna – Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 2009
The University of Westminster began collecting and analyzing vendor usage reports since starting their e-book collections in 2004. They have used the results both to monitor the use of the collections and to calculate basic cost-per-use metrics that have informed decisions on whether to renew particular resources. In 2008, they sought to extend…
Descriptors: Metric System, Case Studies, Data Analysis, Online Vendors
Richard, Jennifer; Koufogiannakis, Denise; Ryan, Pam – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2009
As new models of scholarly communication emerge, librarians and libraries have responded by developing and supporting new methods of storing and providing access to information and by creating new publishing support services. This article will examine the roles of libraries and librarians in developing and supporting open access publishing…
Descriptors: Library Role, Access to Information, Social Sciences, Academic Libraries

Case, Beau David – Library Trends, 2000
Library literature from the late 19th century to the present offers numerous guides to materials selection. Yet, collection development policies and lists of selection criteria are inadequate for humanities electronic texts. Libraries, humanities disciplines, and electronic texts are too complex for any rigid approach to acquisition. To meet goals…
Descriptors: Change, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Text, Information Technology
Lawal, Ibironke O. – Acquisitions Librarian, 2007
The number of electronic resources has climbed up steadily in recent times. Some of these e-resources are reference sources, mostly in Science, Technology and Medicine (STM), which publishers convert to electronic for obvious reasons. The library budgets for materials usually have two main lines, budget for one time purchase (monographs) and…
Descriptors: Libraries, Reference Materials, Reference Services, Electronic Libraries

Miller, Ruth H. – Library Trends, 2000
Over the past 20 years, academic collection development specialists have dealt with changes, brought about by decreasing purchasing power and the growing importance of electronic resources. Throughout, collection managers have rethought their efforts and revised criteria for selection of materials in new formats while maintaining traditional…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Electronic Publishing, Electronic Text
Robbins, Sarah; McCain, Cheryl; Scrivener, Laurie – Acquisitions Librarian, 2006
This study examines the holdings of ARL libraries for core reference titles to see if there is a trend towards canceling the print in favor of electronic, and discusses the implications of duplication of titles in both formats. It also looks at the issue within the context of several areas of study including general reference, arts and humanities,…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Reference Materials, Layout (Publications), Printed Materials

Lancaster, F. W. – Library Trends, 1995
Discusses the evolution of electronic publishing from the early 1960s when computers were used merely to produce conventional printed products to the present move toward networked scholarly publishing. Highlights include library development, periodicals on the Internet, online journals versus paper journals, problems, and the future of…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing, Futures (of Society), Information Dissemination
Pelizzari, Eugenio – Acquisitions Librarian, 2005
The scholarly communication system is in a critical stage, due to a number of factors. The Open Access movement is perhaps the most interesting response that the scientific community has tried to give to this problem. The paper examines strengths and weaknesses of the Open Access strategy in general and, more specifically, of the Open Archives…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Archives, Electronic Libraries, Electronic Publishing
Lee, Deborah – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
This article provides an introduction to the major information resources in the field of economics. The essay evaluates the major selection tools in the area of business and economics, as well as selected core reference titles. The article also includes suggestions for developing and evaluating economics collections, as well as a listing of online…
Descriptors: Selection Tools, Information Sources, Library Services, Economics
Luttmann, Stephen – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
The conscientious selection of music materials requires an understanding of the needs of the public being served at least as much as it requires subject competence on the part of the selector. Online and print resources are available to aid in the selection of music materials in all formats, the most important of which are books, scores, audio and…
Descriptors: Music, Printed Materials, Library Materials, Library Administration
Barnes, Susan J. – Computers in Libraries, 1993
Summarizes users' opinions of a networked electronic library at Cornell University's Mann Library as part of the planning process for a major redesign. The system's impact on library collection development, preservation, technical services, information services and delivery, instruction, and computer support are described; and plans for library…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Computer Networks, Databases, Electronic Libraries
Herzog, Susan – Acquisitions Librarian, 2004
In the down-sized academic library of the twenty-first century, many librarians with little or no formal collection development training or experience are being entrusted with large departmental budgets, occasionally without the collaboration of a department liaison. How do new librarians, or librarians new to a discipline, deal with this…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Library Services, Librarians, Library Development

Barnes, John H. – Library Trends, 1997
The World Wide Web has generated a dramatic increase in the availability of electronic journals. Discusses the development of electronic publishing: CD-ROM systems, local data loading, and pre-Web online environments; and outlines remaining obstacles to libraries making the leap from paper to electronic collections: critical mass, aggregation,…
Descriptors: Archives, Data Processing, Electronic Journals, Electronic Publishing
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