Collection Building: Volume 17 Issue 4

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Table of contents

Giving patrons what they want: the promise, process and pitfalls of providing full‐text access to journals

Janet A. Hughes, Catherine A. Lee

Providing convenient access to journals for users in a geographically dispersed university was a challenge for the Pennsylvania State University Libraries’ Full‐Text…

240

The librarian as ethnographer: notes towards a strategy for the exploitation of cultural collections

Chris Atton

Argues that the hybrid nature of collection development (electronic and print) requires a corresponding hybridised system of collection exploitation. Proposes a model for the…

407

Teaching and exposing grey literature: what the information profession needs to know ‐ examples from the sciences

Julia Gelfand

Grey literature takes on new meanings as publishers and individuals create new products and release information in different ways. With several choices of access and delivery…

903

Halley’s Comet: a bibliography

Paula Desko

Offers advice to the collection builder on approaches that might be taken to Halley’s Comet. Covers introducing yourself to the topic, whether to adopt a historical or scientific…

171

Chinese organized crime: a pathfinder

Winnie Lee

Provides some guidance on building a collection on Chinese organized crime ‐ first a definition of it and then details of some of the resources which could be included in a…

907

ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited