More than 100 presentations from the 36th annual Charleston Library Conference (held November 1-5, 2016) are included in this annual proceedings volume.

Major themes of the meeting included data visualization, streaming video, analysis and assessment, demand-driven acquisition, and open access publishing.

While the Charleston meeting remains a core one for acquisitions librarians in dialog with publishers and vendors, the breadth of coverage of this volume reflects the fact that this conference is now one of the major venues for leaders in the publishing and library communities to...