Building and managing e-book collections : a how-to-do-it manual for librarians
Are you looking for a best practices guide to developing policies and procedures for acquisition, purchase, collection development, cataloging, and retention of e-books? Beginning with a short history of e-books and a review of the e-book publishing industry and its effect on library's selectio...
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Facet Publishing ,
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The electronic book - beginnings to the present
- 2. E-Book publishing - a view from the industry
- 3. E-Book publishing - the view from the library
- 4. E-Books in public libraries
- 5. Selecting E-Books
- 6. Licensing of E-Books
- 7. Budgeting for E-Books
- 8. Cataloging, locating, and accessing E-Books
- 9. Assessment and evaluation of E-Book collections