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Declining Acquisitions Budgets: Allocation, Collection Development and Impact Communication - Brossura
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Have the high costs of information and reductions in library budgets put you in a dilemma? Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a key resource in beginning the task of re-thinking traditional methods of collection development and maintenance. The contributing authors to this volume provide you with thought-provoking chapters which touch on library, business, and societal issues as related to your work as a library administrator. They enable you to take a more economical approach to developing and maintaining a great collection--with a smaller budget.Specific areas covered by the contributors include:
- ideas for the director facing an acquisitions dilemma
- a unique formula for maintaining book collections
- new strategies for reevaluating acquisitions budgeting
- allocating acquisitions budgets with flexibility
- new practices in acquisitions budgeting based on the Ohio State University libraries’indexing system
- access vs. ownership in science collection development
- a project outline to gather circulation information for use in collection development
- what services a subscription vendor can offer in the collection assessment and evaluation processLibrary professionals throughout the country need to learn how to survive in a world of rising information costs and reductions in library budgets. Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a step in the right direction, with insightful strategies and ideas to help readers negotiate their way through these troublesome times.
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Contents Introduction
- The Director's Role in the Acquisitions Dilemma
- Is It Possible to Develop Libraries Without Resources?
- Crisis and Opportunity: Reevaluating Acquisitions Budgeting in an Age of Transition
- Allocating Library Acquisitions Budgets in an Era of Declining or Static Funding
- Justifying Collection Budgets: Indexing Materials Costs
- Access vs. Ownership: What Is Most Cost Effective in the Sciences
- Toward a Calculus of Collection Development
- The Role of the Serials Vendor in the Collection Assessment and Evaluation Process
- Reference Notes Included
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