Libraries are currently confronted by the challenges of managing increasing amounts of electronic information. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence presents the expert perspectives of eight of America’s leading library administrators on ways to effectively manage digital flow and offers strategies to provide a level of coexistence between digital and print information. This excellent overview explores how to best balance print and electronic resources, and explores important issues such as the selection of electronic resources, improving access to digital information for a larger user base, and effective management of a library’s fiscal and personnel resources. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence discusses the various challenges libraries now face from the massive influx of digital resources, including the ways that information-seeking behaviors have changed, the search for synergies between print and digital, economics of news preservation, and whether or not the end of print journals is at hand. New ideas and technological advances are explored, including the diverse ways these improvements will impact the future. This well-referenced resource includes useful tables, figures, and photographs. Topics in Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence include: cooperative collection development balance of print and electronic resources evolvement of digital resources in libraries change in research libraries factors influencing the selection of electronic resources disseminating information about scholarly collections impact of digital resources on research behavior and techniques design of digital libraries JSTOR effects of digital information on reference collections transition of print journals to digital formats Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence is a thought provoking, insightful resource on the future of libraries, invaluable for acquisitions, reference, and collection development librarians; and senior and mid-level administrators such as deans, directors, and department heads for public, special, and academic libraries.

Product Description: Research libraries face many challenges in today’s declining economy. The essays in this book explore these challenges and were originally delivered at a conference entitled "Climbing Out of the Box: Repackaging Libraries for Survival," sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries and held March 4-5, 2010, in Oklahoma City...read more

Product Description: The amount of digital information that libraries need to manage effectively for the benefit of users is constantly increasing. This book discusses in detail how library administrators can better handle this growing abundance of information, as well as effective ways to allow library users easy access...read more

Product Description: The chapters included in this book were developed from papers presented at "The Emerging Research Library: Our Role in the Digital Future" Conference sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries. These chapters explore the emergence of a new form of academic library and the challenging issues we face as a profession because of the changing role of the academic library...read more

Product Description: Digital Information and Knowledge Management examines how academic librarians can use knowledge management to provide an increasing amount of electronic information to an expanding user base. Several of the country’s leading library administrators analyze these vital issues from the perspectives of both information providers and library users, exploring the challenges of selecting and managing electronic information and resources, making the most of knowledge management, and improving digital access to their users...read more

Product Description: Learn to better control costs for print and digital resources—from recognized leaders in library administration!Academic libraries have been using electronic resources for several years, yet library administrators still find that the evolution from print to digital takes meticulous planning...read more

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Product Description: Examine the effects electronic resources have on your library! Electronic Resources and Collection Development examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional collection development policies and practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Examine the effects electronic resources have on your library! Electronic Resources and Collection Development examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has impacted traditional collection development policies and practices...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Learn how electronic texts can save you money!The new technologies that have revolutionized information storage and retrieval demand commensurate changes in librarianship. Research Collections and Digital Information explores the practical and theoretical impact of new information technologies on the libraries of today...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Follow the development of the Research Library Project as it changes the way libraries operate! The 1990s were a decade of increased institutional cooperation among university research libraries, in great part due to spiraling serials costs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Librarians and other library professionals will find this informative book chock full of thought-provoking papers that will help you find new solutions to the collection development problems your library may experience while facing this new digital age...read more

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Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs on library budgets and management in this groundbreaking book. Library administrators will benefit from the practical advice in these perceptive chapters evolved from the 1991 University of Oklahoma Libraries and University of Oklahoma Foundation annual conference. Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets presents well-rounded views of the contemporary library budget situation from a variety of contributors, including practicing librarians, researchers, and book vendor representatives. Find applicable strategies for meeting the library budget and management challenges that rising costs will create in the 1990s. Chapters thoroughly cover the relationship between vendors and acquisitions budgets, including current trends affecting the information environment, libraries, and vendors; changes in library-dealer relationships resulting from economic and technological factors; and conditions of research and the dissemination of information from published and unpublished avenues. Library managers and administrators will find pragmatic advice to use in their own libraries, such as suggestions for dealing with service charges and discounts, studies of use patterns and cost-effectiveness of current collection development decisions, vendors’perspective on criteria used to evaluate book vendors, and a collection of 30 different strategies for stretching the acquisitions budget.

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