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Overview
Librarians and other library professionals will find this informative book chock full of thought-provoking papers that will help you find new solutions to the collection development problems your library may experience while facing this new digital age. Collection Development in a Digital Environment is a result of papers presented at the 1998 University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference.
You will discover ways to help your library take the lead in advancing the academic agenda through technology while at the same time leaning how technology requires change in the way libraries themselves operate. Collection Development in a Digital Environment explores ethical and technological dilemmas of collection development and gives several suggestions on how your library can successfully deal with these challenges and provide patrons with the information they need.
This guide covers many valuable ways that your library can be better prepared for developing a “user friendly” collection of materials in this new digital age. You will discover how methods to shift your library from buying materials for collections for faculty or students that may need them sporadically to a system of responsiveness and customization where “just in time” and “just for you” are the standards of information access, making you and your library both time-effective and cost-effective. Collection Development in a Digital Environment brings to light many ways in which libraries can improve collection development methods, such as:
- using the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) initiatives to improve global access to information, such as the Global Resources Program, which features a seamless web of interconnected, coordinated, and interdependent research collections that are electronically accessible to users
- examining discussions on scenario-driven planning and the benefits of having your patrons let you know what they are interested in instead of guessing what materials they may be interested in
- analyzing the influence of the World Wide Web on the role of libraries to discover how you can use these ideas to expand the collection of materials in your library
- gaining insight into how the concept of disintermediation in the publishing process will help libraries use the electronic environment to eliminate intermediate sources and collect materials directly from the publisher, thus saving time and money
From the insightful chapters in Collection Development in a Digital Environment, you will find new and successful ways to use the new digital environment to enhance collection development in your library. This unique book will help your library be more digitally accessible while still being user-friendly to your clientele.
The book contains black-and-white illustrations.
Synopsis
Librarians and other library professionals will find this informative book chock full of thought-provoking papers that will help you find new solutions to the collection development problems your library may experience while facing this new digital age. Collection Development in a Digital Environment is a result of papers presented at the 1998 University of Oklahoma Libraries Conference.
You will discover ways to help your library take the lead in advancing the academic agenda through technology while at the same time leaning how technology requires change in the way libraries themselves operate. Collection Development in a Digital Environment explores ethical and technological dilemmas of collection development and gives several suggestions on how your library can successfully deal with these challenges and provide patrons with the information they need.
This guide covers many valuable ways that your library can be better prepared for developing a “user friendly” collection of materials in this new digital age. You will discover how methods to shift your library from buying materials for collections for faculty or students that may need them sporadically to a system of responsiveness and customization where “just in time” and “just for you” are the standards of information access, making you and your library both time-effective and cost-effective. Collection Development in a Digital Environment brings to light many ways in which libraries can improve collection development methods, such as:
- using the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) initiatives to improve global access to information, such as the Global Resources Program, which features a seamless web of interconnected, coordinated, and interdependent research collections that are electronically accessible to users
- examining discussions on scenario-driven planning and the benefits of having your patrons let you know what they are interested in instead of guessing what materials they may be interested in
- analyzing the influence of the World Wide Web on the role of libraries to discover how you can use these ideas to expand the collection of materials in your library
- gaining insight into how the concept of disintermediation in the publishing process will help libraries use the electronic environment to eliminate intermediate sources and collect materials directly from the publisher, thus saving time and money
From the insightful chapters in Collection Development in a Digital Environment, you will find new and successful ways to use the new digital environment to enhance collection development in your library. This unique book will help your library be more digitally accessible while still being user-friendly to your clientele.
Geri Bunker Ingram
This is a compilation of papers given at a University of Oklahoma conference in 1998. The purpose is to outline current issues in collection development, lay a framework for discussion in academia, and offer predictions and solutions. Research librarians are the intended audience. The authors accurately treat collection development as an aspect of the scholarly publication cycle, and therefore attend to issues of politics, scholarship, economics, and technology. In ""Chaos Breeds Life,"" Neal notes 25 trends that together caused a quantum leap for information technology in the mid-90's and essentially introduced chaos into library collections and services. Were one to update the technologies reviewed to include wireless delivery, and to factor in convergences such as the rise of ""info-tainment"" and the quagmire of copyright, one would have a virtually complete environmental scan for research libraries. In ""By the Dawn's Early Light,"" Wolf rants, but his political/economic analysis is right on. Quoting Peter Lyman, he exhorts the profession to refuse the bait and stop competing for ARL collection size statistics and cooperate to build useful, distributed research collections. Frazier urges librarians to return to their code of ethics to abate the scholarly communication crisis. He poses the professionals' dilemma: immediate needs of primary clienteles versus the profession's responsibility to optimize public access to knowledge. To mitigate, he urges professionals to be honest about alternative sources for materials; use a percentage of regular budget to encourage alternatives; promote awareness of the ethical issues everywhere. In ""Making the Wind Visible,"" Dillon usespoetic metaphor and an admirable grasp of advances in epistemology to give practical advice on how to progress in these turbulent times: recognize that experiential learning is having its day, but that reflective learning will endure; respect the book's ability to sustain reflection and scientific inquiry, but exploit the Web's ability to enhance interactive multiprocessing. Case and Jakubs point out that in the early '90's, the Association of Research Libraries sought to promote world-class, cosmopolitan attitudes and practices, and to steer libraries away from competing to build duplicative core collections in English. At the time of writing, they indicated that library leaders were not only unable to effectively champion the ""common good"" for its own sake, but were unable even to articulate compelling benefits to individual institutions. Thanks to ARL's leadership, recent efforts have proven more successful. Giesecke presents two versions of scenario planning whose structure and discipline rely upon an organization's ability and willingness to predict trends and prioritize key issues. Example scenarios are provided from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born delivers a professional lecture to the aggregrator in her own jargon while Kennedy urges vendors to become coaches for librarians as a way to carve an(other) niche for the middlemen. This interesting series of papers contains at least three engaging and instructive pieces, making the compilation worthwhile despite unevenness and age. Though the book is only two years old, Internet events have already proven and dispelled some of the predictions. One would be remiss today to neglect to analyze emerging technologies and business models designed to circumvent the middlemen by selling information directly to the end-user (witness Questia Media, ebrary.com (c), for example). Technology that is not mentioned, but definitely worth watching, includes network usage fights negotiated incrementally, end-to-end, and ""on the fly"" at the session, and user-profile levels.
Editorials
From The Critics
Reviewer: Geri Bunker Ingram, MLIS(University of Washington Libraries)Description: This is a compilation of papers given at a University of Oklahoma conference in 1998.
Purpose: The purpose is to outline current issues in collection development, lay a framework for discussion in academia, and offer predictions and solutions.
Audience: Research librarians are the intended audience.
Features: The authors accurately treat collection development as an aspect of the scholarly publication cycle, and therefore attend to issues of politics, scholarship, economics, and technology. In "Chaos Breeds Life," Neal notes 25 trends that together caused a quantum leap for information technology in the mid-90's and essentially introduced chaos into library collections and services. Were one to update the technologies reviewed to include wireless delivery, and to factor in convergences such as the rise of "info-tainment" and the quagmire of copyright, one would have a virtually complete environmental scan for research libraries. In "By the Dawn's Early Light," Wolf rants, but his political/economic analysis is right on. Quoting Peter Lyman, he exhorts the profession to refuse the bait and stop competing for ARL collection size statistics and cooperate to build useful, distributed research collections. Frazier urges librarians to return to their code of ethics to abate the scholarly communication crisis. He poses the professionals' dilemma: immediate needs of primary clienteles versus the profession's responsibility to optimize public access to knowledge. To mitigate, he urges professionals to be honest about alternative sources for materials; use a percentage of regular budget to encourage alternatives; promote awareness of the ethical issues everywhere. In "Making the Wind Visible," Dillon uses poetic metaphor and an admirable grasp of advances in epistemology to give practical advice on how to progress in these turbulent times: recognize that experiential learning is having its day, but that reflective learning will endure; respect the book's ability to sustain reflection and scientific inquiry, but exploit the Web's ability to enhance interactive multiprocessing. Case and Jakubs point out that in the early '90's, the Association of Research Libraries sought to promote world-class, cosmopolitan attitudes and practices, and to steer libraries away from competing to build duplicative core collections in English. At the time of writing, they indicated that library leaders were not only unable to effectively champion the "common good" for its own sake, but were unable even to articulate compelling benefits to individual institutions. Thanks to ARL's leadership, recent efforts have proven more successful. Giesecke presents two versions of scenario planning whose structure and discipline rely upon an organization's ability and willingness to predict trends and prioritize key issues. Example scenarios are provided from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born delivers a professional lecture to the aggregrator in her own jargon while Kennedy urges vendors to become coaches for librarians as a way to carve an(other) niche for the middlemen.
Assessment: This interesting series of papers contains at least three engaging and instructive pieces, making the compilation worthwhile despite unevenness and age. Though the book is only two years old, Internet events have already proven and dispelled some of the predictions. One would be remiss today to neglect to analyze emerging technologies and business models designed to circumvent the middlemen by selling information directly to the end-user (witness Questia Media, ebrary.com (c), for example). Technology that is not mentioned, but definitely worth watching, includes network usage fights negotiated incrementally, end-to-end, and "on the fly" at the session, and user-profile levels.
Geri Bunker Ingram
This is a compilation of papers given at a University of Oklahoma conference in 1998. The purpose is to outline current issues in collection development, lay a framework for discussion in academia, and offer predictions and solutions. Research librarians are the intended audience. The authors accurately treat collection development as an aspect of the scholarly publication cycle, and therefore attend to issues of politics, scholarship, economics, and technology. In ""Chaos Breeds Life,"" Neal notes 25 trends that together caused a quantum leap for information technology in the mid-90's and essentially introduced chaos into library collections and services. Were one to update the technologies reviewed to include wireless delivery, and to factor in convergences such as the rise of ""info-tainment"" and the quagmire of copyright, one would have a virtually complete environmental scan for research libraries. In ""By the Dawn's Early Light,"" Wolf rants, but his political/economic analysis is right on. Quoting Peter Lyman, he exhorts the profession to refuse the bait and stop competing for ARL collection size statistics and cooperate to build useful, distributed research collections. Frazier urges librarians to return to their code of ethics to abate the scholarly communication crisis. He poses the professionals' dilemma: immediate needs of primary clienteles versus the profession's responsibility to optimize public access to knowledge. To mitigate, he urges professionals to be honest about alternative sources for materials; use a percentage of regular budget to encourage alternatives; promote awareness of the ethical issues everywhere. In ""Making the Wind Visible,"" Dillon usespoetic metaphor and an admirable grasp of advances in epistemology to give practical advice on how to progress in these turbulent times: recognize that experiential learning is having its day, but that reflective learning will endure; respect the book's ability to sustain reflection and scientific inquiry, but exploit the Web's ability to enhance interactive multiprocessing. Case and Jakubs point out that in the early '90's, the Association of Research Libraries sought to promote world-class, cosmopolitan attitudes and practices, and to steer libraries away from competing to build duplicative core collections in English. At the time of writing, they indicated that library leaders were not only unable to effectively champion the ""common good"" for its own sake, but were unable even to articulate compelling benefits to individual institutions. Thanks to ARL's leadership, recent efforts have proven more successful. Giesecke presents two versions of scenario planning whose structure and discipline rely upon an organization's ability and willingness to predict trends and prioritize key issues. Example scenarios are provided from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Born delivers a professional lecture to the aggregrator in her own jargon while Kennedy urges vendors to become coaches for librarians as a way to carve an(other) niche for the middlemen. This interesting series of papers contains at least three engaging and instructive pieces, making the compilation worthwhile despite unevenness and age. Though the book is only two years old, Internet events have already proven and dispelled some of the predictions. One would be remiss today to neglect to analyze emerging technologies and business models designed to circumvent the middlemen by selling information directly to the end-user (witness Questia Media, ebrary.com (c), for example). Technology that is not mentioned, but definitely worth watching, includes network usage fights negotiated incrementally, end-to-end, and ""on the fly"" at the session, and user-profile levels.3 Stars from Doody