Mary E. Miller
Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection
Ebook (EPUB Format)
By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users.Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the first edition of this book demonstrated the power and flexibility of rightsizing, an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection. In the five years since Ward's first edition, the shared print infrastructure has grown in leaps and bounds, as has coordination among programs. With this revision, Miller addresses new options a…
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By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users.Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the first edition of this book demonstrated the power and flexibility of rightsizing, an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection. In the five years since Ward's first edition, the shared print infrastructure has grown in leaps and bounds, as has coordination among programs. With this revision, Miller addresses new options as well as the increasing urgency to protect at-risk titles as you reduce your physical collection. Readers will feel confident rightsizing their institution's own collections with this book's expert guidance onthe concept of rightsizing, a strategic and largely automated approach that uses continuous assessment to identify the no- and low-use materials in the collection, and its five core elements;crafting a rightsizing plan, from developing withdrawal criteria and creating discard lists to managing workflow and disposing of withdrawn materials, using a project-management focus; moving toward a facilitated collection with a mix of local, external, and collaborative services;six discussion areas for decisions on participating in a shared print program;factors in choosing a collection decision support tool;relationships with stakeholders;how to handle print resources after your library licenses perpetual access rights to the electronic equivalent; andfuture directions for rightsizing
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Ward, Suzanne M.
- ISBN: 978-0-8389-9386-6
- EAN: 9780838993866
- Produktnummer: 38010810
- Verlag: American Library Association
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 184 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Auflage: 2. Auflage
Über den Autor
Mary E. Miller is the Director of Collection Management and Preservation at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, MN. She has written and spoken on archives and preservation, shared print programs, and consortial collection management. Her current research interests include print retention issues in academic libraries, risk factors that pertain to monographic retention commitments, models for determining the number of copies needed nationally to ensure survival of scarcely-held titles, and best practices for intentional, data-informed collection management, particularly during withdrawal projects. She holds a BA from the University of Illinois - Chicago, and an IMLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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