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E-Book Is Not A Four-Letter Word, Jamie G. Hazlitt, Jason Mitchell

LMU Librarian Publications & Presentations

As the landscape of e-book publishers, platforms, and acquisition models continues to shift and expand, librarians and staff working in collection development and acquisitions do their best to stay on top of ever-changing decision-points and workflows.

At the William H. Hannon Library at Loyola Marymount University, twenty librarian-liaisons are also expected to stay informed of new or changing options when it comes time to select a format for monographs in their subject areas. But selection is a secondary responsibility for most of our liaisons, and information about changes in our e-book collection development shared via email or even through semi-regular …

Video At Fordham: Dvd To Kanopy, Linda Loschiavo

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

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Aligning Our Books To Our Patrons, Rice Majors, Glenn Johnson-Grau, Erika Johnson

AJCU Library Deans & Directors Conference

Rice Majors is the Associate University Librarian for Collections & Scholarly Communication at Santa Clara University. In that role, he does research on the collection performance and especially the performance of print monographs, looking at the comparative performance of print monographs in different academic disciplines and with different collection development strategies at different academic institutions. He has also published on the comparative user experiences of catalog discovery layers.

Glenn Johnson-Grau is Head of Acquisitions & Collection Development at Loyola Marymount University where he manages library acquisitions for books, periodicals, media, and electronic resources. His interests include consortial collaboration on print …