Collection Building: Volume 27 Issue 1

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Scholarly monographs on rock music: a bibliographic essay

Monica Berger

The purpose of this article is to give an overview of scholarly monographs on rock music from 1980 to the present. It aims to provide an overview to the literature for practical…

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Safari books online: currency, usage and book release policies of an e‐book database

Jane Stephens, Pauline Melgoza, Gang (Gary) Wan

The purpose of this paper is to determine the overall currency of electronic books in the Safari database; to determine currency and release policies of the individual publishers…

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The case for chick lit in academic libraries

Stephanie Davis‐Kahl

The purpose of this article is to prove that chick lit is a legitimate and important area of collection for academic libraries.

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A survey of manufacturing engineering databases

Nestor L. Osorio, Andrew W. Otieno

The purpose of this paper is to examine current databases available for manufacturing engineering and summarizes their relevance.

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Percentage based allocation of an academic library materials budget

Debbi A. Smith

The purpose of this article is to describe the process of determining a fund allocation process that would further collection development goals by reflecting the university…

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Samuel Selvon under scrutiny: an annotated bibliography of selected criticism of Selvon's novels

Portia Bowen‐Chang, Marsha Winter

This paper intends to provide an annotated bibliographic guide for scholars and researchers studying the critical works of Samuel Selvon, one of the founding fathers of the…

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ISSN:

0160-4953

Online date, start – end:

1978 – 2017

Copyright Holder:

Emerald Publishing Limited