Library Trends
2000 Volume 48, Number 4
Table of Contents
Number of articles: 14
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Electronic Resources and Academic Libraries, 1980-2000: A Historical Perspective
Ruth H. Miller
Over the past 20 years, academic collection development specialists have dealt with changes, brought about by decreasing purchasing power and the growing importance of electronic resources.... More
pp. 645-70
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Are We There Yet? Online E-Resources Ten Years After
Ann Okerson
Reviews past trends regarding electronic resources and publishing on the Internet, analyzes critical issues involving electronic resources, and makes predictions for the years 2000 through 2005.... More
pp. 671-93
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Electronic Resources: Are Basic Criteria for the Selection of Materials Changing?
Curt Holleman
The four basic criteria for the selection of library materials--quality, library relevancy, aesthetic and technical aspects, and cost--remain the same in the electronic era of information. What... More
pp. 694-710
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Principles of Selection for Electronic Resources
Paul Metz
Availability in electronic format of scholarly and scientific literatures and other forms of information has altered challenges faced by library collection managers. Drawing on ideas of the multi... More
pp. 711-28
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Love's Labour's Lost: The Failure of Traditional Selection Practice in the Acquisition of Humanities Electronic Texts
Beau David Case
Library literature from the late 19th century to the present offers numerous guides to materials selection. Yet, collection development policies and lists of selection criteria are inadequate for... More
pp. 729-47
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Reviewing the World Wide Web--Theory versus Reality
James H. Sweetland
Three attempts at consensus lists of evaluation criteria for the Web are compared with reviews in "Choice" magazine. There is little agreement on the most important/appropriate criteria for a Web... More
pp. 748-68
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Collecting Full-Text CD-ROMs in Literature: Theory, Format, and Selection
Roberta Astroff
Collecting full-text CD-ROMs for a humanities library requires an examination of literary research and the way literature is taught. It is within this context that selectors must establish... More
pp. 769-82
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Selecting Research Collections for Digitization: Applying the Harvard Model
Kristine R. Brancolini
Librarians at Harvard University have written the most comprehensive guide to selecting research collections for digitization. This article applies the Harvard Model to a digitization project at... More
pp. 783-98
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The Impact of Electronic Resources on Serial Cancellations and Remote Storage Decisions in Academic Research Libraries
Janice M. Jaguszewski & Laura K. Probst
In the past, serial cancellations and storage decisions focused primarily on print resources. With the addition of electronic resources, librarians in large research institutions must now manage an... More
pp. 799-820
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Twilight of the Gods? Bibliographers in the Electronic Age
Dan Hazen
Examines bibliographers and collection development in terms of seven sometimes overlapping contexts in order to gauge how and why their roles have changed in the past and to speculate about the... More
pp. 821-41
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Impact of Electronic Resources on Collection Development, the Roles of Librarians, and Library Consortia
Glenda A. Thornton
As the purchase of virtual resources accelerates, particularly through consortial agreements, the autonomy of the local library will fade and the roles of librarians will change drastically. This... More
pp. 842-56
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Hybridity, Mutability, Multiplicity: Theorizing Electronic Library Collections
Marlene Manoff
As electronic objects challenge categorical distinctions central to library organization, efforts are being made to integrate these hybrids and new forms into traditional library systems and to... More
pp. 857-76
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The Acquisitions Culture Wars
Edward Shreeves
Librarians have paid insufficient attention to the conflict on college and university campuses about the role of print and digital resources in the library of the future. Effective communication... More
pp. 877-90
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Navigating the Parallel Universe: Education for Collection Management in the Electronic Age
Virgil L. P. Blake & Thomas T. Surprenant
Focuses on the selection and decision-making aspects of the Edelmen model of collection development. Reviews challenges facing library/information studies education and the place of collection... More
pp. 891-922