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 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...