Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
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Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)
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With your assessment of potential value, cost to usage, and available funding, you have to prioritize the items—acquire now, can wait for a while, and those that may never be acquired. There is a continuum of importance from absolutely essential to the ultimate luxury, with almost all of the items falling somewhere in the midrange.
digital natives and digital immigrants.
most of the early colleges were affiliated with a religious denomination with a primary purpose of turning out pastors for the church,
It was only in the later 20th century that academic librarians began playing a major role in how campus libraries created and maintained their collections.