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Minnesota State University, Mankato

2016

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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences

The Library & The Consortium: Don’T Trade Away Library Agency Without Considering The Cost, Nat Gustafson-Sundell Dec 2016

The Library & The Consortium: Don’T Trade Away Library Agency Without Considering The Cost, Nat Gustafson-Sundell

Library Services Publications

Libraries entrust negotiating authority to consortia upon the assumption that consortia can exercise greater “buying power” than individual institutions when dealing with vendors, because of greater scale. The prevailing mythology is that consortial deals simply must be better deals than libraries could secure on their own. In this presentation, the author questions the presumption that scale necessarily leads to better deals for libraries. Rather, library agency, as exercised in direct negotiations, can be more effective than scale for the purpose of securing the best possible deals. In fact, scale can lead to detrimental effects, to the extent individual institutions are …

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Documents Through The Decades, University Of Wisconsin Law Library Oct 2016

Documents Through The Decades, University Of Wisconsin Law Library

Federal Depository Anniversaries

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from the University of Wisconsin Law Library.

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Constitution Day, University Of Northern Iowa Sep 2016

Constitution Day, University Of Northern Iowa

Constitution

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from the Rod Library at the University of Northern Iowa.

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Hermione's Summer Reading List, Casey Duevel, Barbara J. Bergman Jul 2016

Hermione's Summer Reading List, Casey Duevel, Barbara J. Bergman

Library Services Publications

Librarian recommended fun and exciting reads to enjoy while taking a break from your OWLs studies. Something for every house!

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Earth Month, Middendorf-Kredell Branch (St. Charles City-County Library District, Mo) Apr 2016

Earth Month, Middendorf-Kredell Branch (St. Charles City-County Library District, Mo)

Conservation/Energy Alternatives

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Middendorf-Kredell Branch (St. Charles City-County Library District, Missouri).

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Winter Is Coming, Middendorf-Kredell Branch (St. Charles City-County Library District, Mo) Jan 2016

Winter Is Coming, Middendorf-Kredell Branch (St. Charles City-County Library District, Mo)

Weather/Natural Disasters

Bibliography and photographs of a display of government documents from Middendorf-Kredell Branch (St. Charles City-County Library District, Missouri).

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Gpo And The Movies, Hanover College Jan 2016

Gpo And The Movies, Hanover College

Film/Movies

Photograph and Bibliography for a display of government documents from Duggan Library at Hanover College.

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Survey Of Classification And Organization Of Videorecordings, Barbara J. Bergman, Jessica Schomberg, Dorie Kurtz Jan 2016

Survey Of Classification And Organization Of Videorecordings, Barbara J. Bergman, Jessica Schomberg, Dorie Kurtz

Library Services Publications

Libraries have long struggled with the question of how to best classify and enable access to videorecordings. While giving a presentation at a state library conference, the authors observed from comments during the question and answer portion of the presentation that the libraries represented in the audience use a variety of video classification and organization practices. To better understand how local practices and librarians’ attitudes regarding the efficacy of these practices vary, we conducted a survey soliciting responses from librarians representing a broad array of library types.

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