Serials in libraries : issues and practices /
By: Black, Steven.
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Libraries Unlimited, 2006Description: xiv, 193 p. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 159158258X (pbk. : alk. paper); 9781591582588:; 9781591582588 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Serials librarianship -- United StatesDDC classification: 025.1732Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 025.1732 BLA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0086319 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The serials environment -- Remote access serials -- Budgeting, selection, and deselection -- Serials workflow in libraries -- Bibliographic control of serials -- Economics and the market for serials -- Issues in scholarly journal publishing -- Use of serials -- Teaching patrons to use serials.
Covers such traditional aspects of serials management as acquisition, evaluation, and authority control. This book also uses these and other functions to highlight changes in scholarly communication and, by extension, how these changes in turn necessitate improvements in practice.