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Training New Acquisitions And Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical And Philosophical Guideposts, Antje Mays
Training New Acquisitions And Collection Development Librarians: Some Technical And Philosophical Guideposts, Antje Mays
Dacus Library Faculty Publications
This article covers key competencies for success as acquisitions and collection development librarians, delineates between collection development's intellectual facets of curricular support and acquisitions' business functions and shows how the two interrelated. Also provided are best practices for training and mentoring and professional development information for new librarians entering acquisitions and collection development.
Isr@Bucknell, Information Services And Resources, Bucknell University
Isr@Bucknell, Information Services And Resources, Bucknell University
ISR @ Bucknell
isr@bucknell was a newsletter published by Bucknell University's Information Services and Resources department (later Library and Information Technology). The publication served the community by providing software, project, and service updates. Regular features included a letter from the Associate Vice President for Information Services and Resources, the "Ask ISR" column, and featured ISR web pages. This issue includes the following articles: "Bucknell Community Dialogue Day," "Supporting a Community of Learning," "Get This Item," "Licensing for Electronic Resources," "Meet Adam Kubik," "Printer Usage on Campus," "Technology Use in the Classroom," "Keeping Up-to-Date with the Periodicals Collection," "Google Scholar," "Today's Tech Lingo, Gadgets, …
Investment Banks As Fiduciaries: Implications For Conflicts Of Interest, Andrew F. Tuch
Investment Banks As Fiduciaries: Implications For Conflicts Of Interest, Andrew F. Tuch
Scholarship@WashULaw
Investment banks play an intermediary role in the financial system that is integral to its efficient operation. A core, and highly visible, part of their work involves providing financial advisory services to institutional clients on transactions that have strategic importance, such as mergers and acquisitions. As these services are but one aspect of the broad and diverse range of financial services that investment banks typically provide, challenges such as conflicts of interest inevitably arise. Somewhat anomalously, the question of whether these firms owe fiduciary duties to their clients when providing financial advisory services has received little regulatory, judicial or scholarly …