The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines - Softcover

American Library Association

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555706649 ISBN 13: 9781555706647

Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman, 2009

Synopsis

Find practical and ready-to-implement advice in this authoritative resource for building, growing, managing, and maintaining your electronic resources collection. Library Journal deemed the first edition of Diane Kovacs groundbreaking guide an essential purchase for all libraries . This new edition covers over 15 subject areas, including jobs and employment, business, medicine, law, social sciences, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, earth sciences, arts and humanities, and more. Kovacs extensively updates her coverage of Web collection development resources, licensing web-accessible resources and real-life e-library success stories. New and expanded chapters are dedicated to e-library management and maintenance including guidance on negotiating e-resource licenses and collection analysis. For each subject area, core collection development tools have been expanded to include Web 2.0 related services and government documents. A bonus companion Web site available only to purchasers of the book features ready-made, annotated links to all the sites in the book s recommended core reference collections in each subject area that readers can import into their library s Web site or OPAC.

About this title

Review:

"...a handy guide...The value of this guide is its exclusive focus on e-resource collection development and the special considerations associated with it...The Kovacs Guide is a welcome addition to the collection development literature available to librarians." --Collection Management 35(2) April-June 2010

"...especially useful are individual sections citing specific Web sites for e-collection sources in ready reference, business, medicine, biology, engineering, physical and earth sciences and humanities...offers librarians much useful information." --Booklist, February 2010

"Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books." --SciTech Book News, December 2009

"...an authoritative, easy-to-use resource for librarians and information professionals engaged in electronic collection development....a valuable resource that is highly recommended for large public library systems, community college, and academic libraries." --ARBA Online, March 2010

"Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books." --SciTech Book News, December 2009

"â ¦this marvelous book is absolutely foundational for, as the subtitle says, the theory and practice of information literacy instruction (ILI). The authors have deep experience in all facets of ILI, have written and presented widely, and have stayed abreast of research on all aspects of the topic since the first landmark edition of this title (2001)...Very highly recommended to all academic and public libraries." --Catholic Library World, September 2010

"Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books." --SciTech Book News, December 2009

"â ¦an outstanding resourceâ ¦I highly recommend this resource to any librarian responsible for developing and maintaining an electronic resource collection." --Serials Review, 2010

"Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books." --SciTech Book News, December 2009

"The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development may become the most dog-eared reference work on my desk...This impressive work serves as an excellent resource for new librarians, but also a useful guide for those of us in the trenches...an excellent overview of not only resources, but of current library practices." --Journal of the Medical Library Association, January 2011

"Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books." --SciTech Book News, December 2009

From Booklist:

First published in 2004, this second edition provides updated and enhanced information on “how to build, expand, improve, and maintain an e-library collection.” Chapters cover general collection guidelines and licensing basics; especially useful are individual sections citing specific Web sites for e-collection sources in ready reference, business, medicine, biology, engineering, physical and earth sciences, and the social sciences and humanities. Kovacs, who co-compiled a few editions of the invaluable print Directory of Electronic Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists, among other works, is a very diligent researcher, and her latest title again offers librarians much useful information. The price may deter financially strapped libraries from purchasing this worthwhile title. --Donald Altschiller

About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Neal-Schuman
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1555706649
• ISBN 13: 9781555706647
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 303