Save time and money for your library with these current and easy suggestions! Acquiring Online Management Reports offers state-of-the-art information for acquisitions librarians involved in selecting management reports of all types, from fund accounting to decision support systems to usage tracking. Compiling management reports has always been a responsibility of acquisitions librarians. These days, computerized reporting systems have become powerful tools in managing libraries, but they are useful only when the results are accurate, significant, and relevant. Acquiring Online Management Reports discusses techniques for creating and interpreting reports that will give librarians the information they need in an accessible form. This fact-filled guide explores working with vendors, developing cost-effective collection development methods to suit your library, assessing collection growth, and choosing the best electronic resources to help meet your goals. In Acquiring Online Management Reports, librarians will find practical, instantly usable information on pertinent topics, including: the problems created by inaccurate data vendor discussions of how new report systems are designed and implemented the surprising differences between journals’online and print editions expanding usage of decision support systems interpreting the fluctuations of fund accounting information using computer technology to form library consortia computerizing serials control Acquiring Online Management Reports offers you an array of proven ideas, options, and examples that will enable your library to keep up with changing technologies and client demands.

This timely volume sheds light on the important legal issues that influence the scholarly publishing world. The often-confusing field of publishing lawincluding copyright, licensing, liability, electronic publishing, and taxationis going through an unprecedented upheaval as we move into the twenty-first century. Publishing and the Law: Current Legal Issues offers clear, current explanations of the implications of recent laws and technologies and predicts what further changes to expect.

Published simultaneously as , volume 30, numbers 1/2 and 3/4 2000, this book examines the utility of the Internet as a scholarly research and reference tool. Each chapter provides a snapshot of Internet information access in a specific subject area, comparing it to traditional print media. Subject areas include social sciences, arts, natural sciences, business, engineering, history, law, literature, medicine, political science, and philosophy. In addition, each chapter includes a selected Internet bibliography of key resources. Internet resources are evaluated in terms of reliability, timeliness, and availability.

Overmeier (library and information studies, U. of Oklahoma, Norman) and other library professionals discuss the acquisition of out-of- print and special collections materials. A sampling of topics includes collecting underground poetry, factors influencing the fair market value of out-of-print books, and using older materials in support of teaching. The volume has been simultaneously published as The Acquisitions Librarian, Number 27 2002. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

An index to library and information science literature.