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Selected Works

2014

Collection development

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Kent State Paging Slip Database, Tom Klingler May 2014

Kent State Paging Slip Database, Tom Klingler

Tom Klingler

No abstract provided.


Kent State New Materials And Active Serials, Tom Klingler May 2014

Kent State New Materials And Active Serials, Tom Klingler

Tom Klingler

No abstract provided.


Give 'Em What They Want: Patron-Driven Collection Development, Karen S. Fischer, Hope Barton, Michael Wright, Kit Clatanoff Mar 2014

Give 'Em What They Want: Patron-Driven Collection Development, Karen S. Fischer, Hope Barton, Michael Wright, Kit Clatanoff

Hope I Barton

Patron-Driven Acquisitions (PDA) is the hot topic in collection management. It sets traditional notions of collection-building upside down, while also presenting vendors and publishers with very different business models. Collaborating with ebrary and YBP, the University of Iowa Libraries established a PDA pilot program in September 2009 which has proven to be extremely popular with users and seems to be working in the Libraries’ favor. PDA has advantages (you only buy materials that are used) but has some potential pitfalls too, like going broke quickly, or building an ebook collection that doesn’t necessarily fit in the long run. To help …


Photomicrographs, The Npr 100, And Student Teaching: Library Liaison Ideas That Really Work, Katherine Furlong, Janelle L. Wertzberger Feb 2014

Photomicrographs, The Npr 100, And Student Teaching: Library Liaison Ideas That Really Work, Katherine Furlong, Janelle L. Wertzberger

Janelle Wertzberger

In 1997, Gettysburg College's Musselman Library revived a dormant liaison program. Librarians were assigned to each department and program on campus and expected to serve as the first point of library contact for the teaching faculty. Some core communications and activities emerged that we now encourage every liaison to practice; attending department meetings, sending reviews of new materials, tracking faculty book orders, and visiting faculty offices are seen as standard liaison activities. We were delighted to find that almost every librarian had some unique and interesting experiences to report. The authors collected these experiences so that they could be shared …