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Integrating Preservation Activities
Includes preservation program descriptions, preservation policies and procedures, position descriptions, and staff and user education practices from a variety of research libraries.
Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries
Designed as a “how-to” manual, Practical Preservation and Conservation Strategies for Libraries provides librarians with practical information to help them grapple with specific preservation challenges by identifying areas of concern, optimizing the use of resources put towards preservation, and establishing goals for continual improvement over time. Straightforward and pragmatic, it helps a library to reduce immediate and long-term preservation costs, and strengthen a library’s collection development goals. Topics include: Preservation in the digital age Establishing long-term preservation goals Environmental conditions Preservation needs of specific collections Understanding use patterns for library materials Identifying potential threats to a collection Recognizing readily available preservation resources Almost 50 photographs, figures, checklists, and other tools make this a practical guide libraries will use on a day-to-day basis.
Cooperative Efforts of Libraries
Explore a wide variety of cooperative initiatives—at regional, statewide, and international levels! This book examines a wide variety of cooperative efforts and consortia in libraries, both geographically and in terms of such activities as digitization and cooperative reference services. You'll learn how libraries are cooperating regionally, on the statewide level, and internationally to provide better service to all kinds of users. Cooperative Efforts of Libraries explores aspects of cooperation that include remote storage, virtual reference service, collection development, staff training and instruction, preservation, interlibrary loan, and international cooperation in Latin America and ...
The Corporate Finance Sourcebook
Sources of financing are arranged by industry, geographic areas, and method of financing.
The New Art Museum Library
The New Art Museum Library addresses the issues facing today's art museum libraries through a series of scholarly essays written by top librarians in the field. In 2007, the publication, Art Museum Libraries and Librarianship, edited by Joan Benedetti, was the first to solely focus on the field of art museum librarianship. In the decade since then, many changes have occurred in the field--both technological and ideological--prompting the need for a follow-up publication. In addition to representing current thinking and practice, this new publication also addresses the need to clearly articulate and define the art museum library’s value within its institution. It documents the broad changes...
Library Literature & Information Science
An index to library and information science literature.
Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development
This solidly researched book will help you assess your library's situation, identify new opportunities, and find powerful new ways to perform the essential tasks of archiving, preservation, and digitization. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world. It examines the costs and benefits of regional, national, and international cooperatives and debates the varying uses of centered and decentralized models of resource sharing. It offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles to success, including lengthy approval processes, fixation on volume count instead of quality, faculty resistance to reforming scholarly communications, and publishing monopolies.
Restaurator
International journal for the preservation of library and archival material.
Collection Management Basics
If the heart of the library is its collection, this textbook provides the keys to the heart of your library. Alongside standards of basic principles and processes, you'll find practical guidance on everything from acquisitions to preservation. Managing collections in today's libraries is more complicated and challenging than ever. Electronic formats, new options for collaboration and sharing, and the drive to use data for evaluation purposes are just a few of the changes now driving collection management. This updated edition of a classic text addresses changes in the field and provides a thorough overview of what collection development specialists now need to know to effectively and efficie...
