Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development

by Wolf; Milton T.

• ISBN13: 9780789011589
• ISBN10: 0789011581
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-01-10
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Ensure the success of your library's cooperative collection development plan! This solidly researched book brings a fresh perspective to the practical problems of library resource sharing. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers shrewd advice and creative thinking on the political and administrative issues that often present obstacles. It 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. By making wise use of new technologies, local libraries can offer international resources and services unimaginable just a few decades ago. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world, including the US, Eastern Europe, the UK, the nations of the Pacific Rim, and South Asia. 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. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles, including: lengthy approval processes fixation on volume count instead of quality faculty and commercial resistance to reforming scholarly communications publishing monopolies and rising prices Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development defines the issues that need to be addressed by the library community to foster the advancement of cooperative collection development and suggests a series of steps that can be taken to ensure its future success and continued growth. It is an essential guide to the world of resource sharing.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(4)
Milton T. Wolf
Marjorie E. Bloss
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
University Libraries as Agents of Change	5	(10)
Myles Brand
COOPERATIVES: APPROVAL PLANS AND CONSORTIA
Designing and Implementing a Consortial Approval Plan: The OhioLINK Experience	15	(30)
Carol Pitts Diedrichs
Making the Common Uncommon? Examining Consortial Approval Plan Cooperation	45	(12)
Kim Armstrong
Bob Nardini
Collaborative Purchasing: A Model for Financially Straitened Times	57	(22)
Steve O'Connor
Stephen Pugh
Back to the Future: Building the Florida Library Research Consortium	79	(8)
Martha Hruska
Kathy Arsenault
SCHOLARLY COMMUNICATIONS
Last Copy Depository: Cooperative Collection Management Centers in the Electronic Age	87	(6)
Vernon N. Kisling, Jr.
Stephanie C. Haas
Pamela S. Cenzer
An Experiment in Cooperative Collection Development: South Asia Vernaculars Among the Research Triangle Universities	93	(12)
E. Christian Filstrup
Jordan M. Scepanski
Tony K. Stewart
The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of Its Parts	105	(14)
Milton T. Wolf
Marjorie E. Bloss
CONSORTIA, COOPERATIVES, AND CONSTERNATION
The Printed Book: Still in Need of CCD	119	(18)
Anna H. Perrault
Grey Literature Poses New Challenges for Research Libraries	137	(12)
Julia M. Gelfand
Challenges and Constraints for History Selectors	149	(26)
James P. Niessen
Susanne F. Roberts
Collecting Material on Natural Disasters: A Case Study in Co-Operative Collections Development	175	(10)
Linwood DeLong
INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Dancing with Elephants: International Cooperation in an Interdependent (But Unequal) World	185	(30)
Dan Hazen
International Information Exchange: New Configurations for Library Collaboration in South Asian Studies	215	(26)
James Nye
David Magier
From Farmington Plan to the Pacific Rim Digital Library Alliance: New Strategies in Developing International Collections	241	(10)
Phyllis Mirsky
R. Bruce Miller
Karl Lo
Co-operative Collection Development: A UK National Library Perspective	251	(12)
Geoff Smith
Specialized Cooperative Efforts in Collection Development: An Analysis of Three Slavic Programs	263	(18)
Bradley L. Schaffner
Libraries of One World: Librarians Look Across the Oceans	281	(8)
Frederick J. Friend
The Politics of Information Institutions, or I Am Not a Luddite, But . . .	289	(8)
Martha Gould
Index	297