Electronic Resources Management in the Academic Library: A Professional Guide (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781610690058)

For academic libraries, this highly readable book provides the practical information needed to get started managing electronic resources throughout their life cycle.

This book covers the five points of the e-resources lifecycle in a readable and accessible manner, providing valuable information that is applicable to real-world situations. Each of the working chapters covers one of the five lifecycle points (Acquisitions, Access, Administration, Support, and Evaluation), and supplies suggested readings and thought-provoking questions. Additionally, there are two chapters that guide readers from learning about the work to actually doing it.

Electronic Resources Management in the Academic Library: A Professional Guide is full of practical assignments that teachers of e-resources management will appreciate. This guide will also be immensely beneficial to library and information science school students and independent learners who need immediate, practical knowledge from the field to get them started in a position which requires them to manage electronic resources.

Author: Karin Wikoff
ISBN-10: 1610690052
ISBN-13: 9781610690058
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Language: English
Published: 11/18/2011
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 10.00h x 7.00w x 0.33d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2012 pg. 295