Research Catalog

Title

• Building electronic library collections : the essential guide to selection criteria and core subject collections / Diane Kovacs.

Author

Kovacs, Diane.

Publication

New York : Neal-Schuman Publishers, c2000.

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Description

xxii, 217 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

• "This publication not only identifies sites for library reference collections, it winnows out those that are less central and, more importantly, provides a taxonomic structure familiar to our print collections and our traditions in organizing reference material."-- P. xi.
• Library collection development has changed dramatically in the past decade. The widespread use of new technology and the publication of information on and through the Internet and the World Wide Web means that librarians must begin to develop Web-based information collections. Here is a unique guide which will be invaluable for librarians building electronic libraries. Each chapter addresses collecting, evaluating, and selecting Web-based information resources in selected subject areas: business, employment, social science, health, medicine, bioscience, law, physical science, technology, education, current awareness, reader's advisory, and Web-based resources for print and other collection activities.

Alternative Title

Essential guide to selection criteria and core subject collections

Subject

• Acquisition of electronic information resources
• Collection development (Libraries)
• Databases as Topic
• Digital libraries > Collection development
• Electronic information resources > Management
• Internet
• Libraries > United States > Electronic information resources
• Library Automation
• Library Collection Development
• Library Materials
• United States

Genre/Form

Electronic information resources.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Developing an electronic library collection on the Web -- Collecting Web-based core ready-reference resources -- Collecting Web-based business and jobs and employment information resources -- Collecting Web-based health and medicine information resources -- Collecting Web-based legal information resources -- Collecting Web-based biological science, social and physical sciences, and technology information resources -- Collecting Web-based education, current awareness, and reader's advisory information resources; Web-based information resources for print; and other collection activities.

ISBN

1555703623

LCCN

^^^99048575^

OCLC

42428836

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library