Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections
Chris Anderson's concept of the 'long tail has evoked considerable interest and discussion from librarians. To date these discussions have largely accepted without question the veracity of Anderson's model and its applicability to library collections. The purpose of this article is to...
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| description | Chris Anderson's concept of the 'long tail has evoked considerable interest and discussion from librarians. To date these discussions have largely accepted without question the veracity of Anderson's model and its applicability to library collections. The purpose of this article is to examine some elements of the model in order to firstly, determine if it can indeed be simply adopted for use when describing the library collecting environment; and secondly, if there is some divergence, what does this tell us about the future management of print collections? |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-382542017-01-30T14:16:05Z Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections Genoni, Paul library collection management library storage long tail print repositories Chris Anderson's concept of the 'long tail has evoked considerable interest and discussion from librarians. To date these discussions have largely accepted without question the veracity of Anderson's model and its applicability to library collections. The purpose of this article is to examine some elements of the model in order to firstly, determine if it can indeed be simply adopted for use when describing the library collecting environment; and secondly, if there is some divergence, what does this tell us about the future management of print collections? 2007 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38254 fulltext |
| spellingShingle | library collection management library storage long tail print repositories Genoni, Paul Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections |
| title | Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections |
| title_full | Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections |
| title_fullStr | Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections |
| title_full_unstemmed | Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections |
| title_short | Libraries, the Long Tail and the Future of Legacy Print Collections |
| title_sort | libraries, the long tail and the future of legacy print collections |
| topic | library collection management library storage long tail print repositories |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/38254 |