Declining Acquisitions Budgets

by Lee, Sul H.

• ISBN13: 9781560246138
• ISBN10: 1560246138
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-12-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Director's Role in the Acquisitions Dilemma	p. 3
Is It Possible to Develop Libraries Without Resources?	p. 19
Crisis and Opportunity: Reevaluating Acquisitions Budgeting in an Age of Transition	p. 33
Allocating Library Acquisitions Budgets in an Era of Declining or Static Funding	p. 57
Justifying Collection Budgets: Indexing Materials Costs	p. 75
Access vs. Ownership: What Is Most Cost Effective in the Sciences	p. 89
Toward a Calculus of Collection Development	p. 101
The Role of the Serials Vendor in the Collection Assessment and Evaluation Process	p. 125
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