Explores a range of cost-effective and efficient approaches to providing students and faculty members with information that exists outside the local library. The book guides librarians in choosing between the available resource-sharing options and helps them to develop satisfactory programmes.

A practical guide to serials management for both novice and experienced serials librarians, library mangers and supervisors. This text offers flexible serials management methods that work from beginning (acquisitions) to end (circulation and records control).

The new technologies that libraries now use have not only recreated the library, but are also redefining the traditional library budget. It is essential that a library budget reflects the increasing use of technology to provide information for patrons.

The story of the establishment of the Scholarly Communications Centre (SCC) in the Alexander Library of Rutgers, New Jersey. The SCC is a gateway to new modes of scholarly communication and a new role for libraries in that area.

A complete guide to developing a library-wide preservation program, The Preservation Program Blueprint will help you to map out a system that is both preventative and curative. Placing the responsibilities of preservation on every staff member in each department, Higginbotham and Wild assert that by decentralizing preservation activities and integrating them into ongoing library functions, you will preserve materials effectively, efficiently, and with buy-in from staff. Apply their proven strategies to: * Create an around-the-building approach to preservation. * Implement preventative...