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E-Book Tune-Up: Maintaining, Sustaining And Expanding Your Demand Driven E-Book Program, Caroline Mills, Janet Nazar, Michelle Desilets, Nathan Carlson
E-Book Tune-Up: Maintaining, Sustaining And Expanding Your Demand Driven E-Book Program, Caroline Mills, Janet Nazar, Michelle Desilets, Nathan Carlson
Caroline Mills
Just like a car, an e-book program needs continuous maintenance in order to run smoothly. What can we do to structure our e-book collections to better meet institutional need? Many factors come into play in building a successful demand driven acquisition (DDA) program. Student preferences, actual use, collection development, and faculty/staff education and support are all important aspects of maintaining and sustaining a DDA program. This paper describes how the Furman University Library in South Carolina and the Metropolitan State University Library (Metro State) in Minnesota assessed and fine-tuned their respective DDA programs and the results of these changes.
The Hitchhiker’S Guide To Collection Development In Academic Libraries, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian
The Hitchhiker’S Guide To Collection Development In Academic Libraries, Rachel Wen-Paloutzian
Rachel Wen-Paloutzian
This 2016 guest lecture for the UCLA Information Studies Graduate Course "Collection Development" offered an overview of collection development in academic libraries and illustrated the most essential aspects of building library collections in the 21th century. Focusing on the William H. Hannon Library at LMU as an example, the lecture elaborated on the variety of subject collection, library liaison program, selection criteria, collecting for Archives and Special Collections, and building digital collections.