Collection Building: Volume 23 Issue 2

Report on the 23rd annual Charleston Conference 2003

This paper outlines some of the topics covered at the 2003 Charleston Conference, November 2003, whose theme was “Issues in book and serial acquisition: games people play”. Issues…

Linking preservation metadata and collection management policies

The long‐term preservation of digital resources is one of the most important issues facing the library community. In particular, libraries need a preservation strategy for digital…

Literature of disasters from the human factors point of view: a descriptive analysis

Based on information derived from bibliographic titles in Ergonomic Abstracts, this paper analyzes research done on human factors in disaster management. A bibliometric analysis…

User preferences in formats of print and electronic journals

The introduction of electronic journals and electronic versions of journals has made serials collection management more complex. Libraries may want to offer a particular journal…

Accreditation and library collections: the monographic holdings of academic libraries that support AACSB accredited and non‐accredited MBA programs in the state of Pennsylvania, USA

This research used a sample of titles drawn from the Harvard Business School Core Collection to examine the holdings of libraries of institutions offering the Master of Business…

Spanish language books: a review of print and online resources

This paper notes that the rapid rate of demographic change in the United States of America population means that librarians must integrate Spanish language materials into their…

Collecting comic books for an academic library

Comic books are finally being recognized as a scholarly medium in literature, art, history, popular culture, and many other fields of study. Blanket disapproval of comic books…

Economics of Libraries

Do We Want to Keep Our Newspapers?

E‐Serials: Publishers, Libraries, Users and Standards

The Digital Library: A Biography

Copyright Issues Relevant to the Creation of a Digital Archive: A Preliminary Assessment