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Publication date: 15 December 2017

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The Emerald Handbook of Modern Information Management
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ISBN: 978-1-78714-525-2

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Publication date: 1 June 2018

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Project Management in the Library Workplace
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ISBN: 978-1-78754-837-4

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Publication date: 7 April 2015

Heidi Hanson and Zoe Stewart-Marshall

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 32 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 5 June 2009

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 26 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 6 June 2008

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 25 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 6 November 1992

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Advances in Librarianship
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ISBN: 978-0-12024-616-8

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Publication date: 16 September 2013

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Mergers and Alliances: The Operational View and Cases
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ISBN: 978-1-78350-054-3

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Publication date: 25 January 2008

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Library Hi Tech News, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0741-9058

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Publication date: 4 August 2023

Paul Rosenstein

The academic library’s physical capacity and its service obligations to local users structured the traditional print collection. Largely freed of these constraints, the digital

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The academic library’s physical capacity and its service obligations to local users structured the traditional print collection. Largely freed of these constraints, the digital collection manager enjoys unprecedented freedoms but now contends with a collection susceptible to resource sprawl and scope ambiguity. This exploratory study aims to consider the possibility that intra-field social processes help to structure and routinize digital collection practice.

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Lacking the constraints to which print collections are subject, electronic resource and digital library collections are more likely to reflect idiosyncratic institutional interests and therefore, to demonstrate significant variation. Evidence of homogeneity may suggest the influence of heretofore underexplored social structures. To determine the extent of such homogeneity, the author performed exploratory/descriptive content analyses on ten electronic resource collection development policies and six digital library collection development policies.

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The data reveal among both the electronic resource and digital library collection policies significant uniformity. Content analyses demonstrate consistent themes (e.g. media, audience, selection priorities, etc.) and rhetoric. These findings lend support to the study’s central hypothesis regarding latent social structures. Analyses also reveal a set of unanticipated constraints unique to digital collection management.

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Despite the breadth and maturity of literature addressing the Digital Turn in academic librarianship, relatively little attention has been paid to the social dimensions of collection management. This work represents an important corrective and suggests new theoretical approaches to the study of digital collection practice.

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Digital Transformation and Society, vol. 3 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 2755-0761

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Publication date: 16 September 1997

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Advances in Librarianship
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ISBN: 978-0-12024-621-2

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