Collection Building: Volume 25 Issue 4

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The scholarly communication movement: highlights and recent developments

Sherrie S. Bergman

To provide an overview of the growing international movement of librarians, faculty members, and researchers who are working together to develop new methods of scholarly…

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Inventory: catalyst for collection development

Daniel L. Shouse, Linda Teel

The intent of this article is to show the direct outcomes of an inventory project, which served as the catalyst for collection development improvements.

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The SwissInfoDesk experiment: the building of a website subject gateway as a contributive part of a virtual reference desk

Jean‐Philippe Accart

Virtual Reference Desks are new online services developed by libraries and this paper aims to give the example of SwissInfoDesk, the VRD of the Swiss National Library set up in…

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Collection Development in a digital environment: an imperative for information organizations in the twenty‐first century

Bárbara Susana Sánchez Vignau, Ileana Lourdes Presno Quesada

This paper discusses the topic of Collection Development in a digital environment. Developing digital collections is a logical consequence of inserting information technologies in…

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College students, cookies and collections: using holiday study breaks to encourage undergraduate research in special collections

Susan Summerfield Hammerman, Barbara Kern, Rebecca Starkey, Anne Taylor

To launch the University of Chicago Library's study break program for undergraduate students which introduces them to rare book and manuscript collections.

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ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited