Developing Library and Information Center CollectionsEvans's third edition reflects the impact of technology on all phases of collection development. While retaining the structure of previous editions, it incorporates new information and reading lists into each chapter. In addition, there is a new chapter that focuses solely on electronic materials. Emphasizing collection development in general rather than the process in any particular institutional setting, the author provides a thorough discussion of information needs assessment, policies of collection development, and the selection process itself. He considers acquisitions, the major online bibliographic services, publishers and publishing, distributors and vendors, weeding, and the hows and whys of cooperative collection development and resource sharing. Copyright, intellectual freedom, and censorship; serials; government documents; fiscal management; automation; and preservation are some of the other topics discussed. |
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... organization . Barnard's model does not include any time factor - if all five elements are present , an organization could exist for just a few hours or for centuries . What differentiates a group of two or more people from an ...
... organization assumes both the goals and dangers are basically unchanging . Organizational goals are long term and seldom in need of adjustment . Such organizations assume changes or dangers to its well - being occur randomly and there ...
... organization may make a radical change in its basic purposes . Anyone who reads the business section of a newspaper encounters examples of organizations that made successful basic goal changes and those that failed because they did not ...
Contents
INFORMATION AGEINFORMATION SOCIETY | 1 |
Concepts and Terms | 8 |
ELECTRONIC MATERIALS | 10 |
Copyright | |
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