Collection Building: Volume 17 Issue 4
Table of contents
Giving patrons what they want: the promise, process and pitfalls of providing full‐text access to journals
Janet A. Hughes, Catherine A. LeeProviding convenient access to journals for users in a geographically dispersed university was a challenge for the Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ Full‐Text…
The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections
Chris AttonArgues that the hybrid nature of collection development (electronic and print) requires a corresponding hybridised system of collection exploitation. Proposes a model for the…
Teaching and exposing grey literature: what the information profession needs to know ‐ examples from the sciences
Julia GelfandGrey literature takes on new meanings as publishers and individuals create new products and release information in different ways. With several choices of access and delivery…
Halley’s Comet: a bibliography
Paula DeskoOffers advice to the collection builder on approaches that might be taken to Halley’s Comet. Covers introducing yourself to the topic, whether to adopt a historical or scientific…
Chinese organized crime: a pathfinder
Winnie LeeProvides some guidance on building a collection on Chinese organized crime ‐ first a definition of it and then details of some of the resources which could be included in a…