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Title Transforming acquisitions and collection services : perspectives on collaboration within and across libraries / edited by Michelle Flinchbaugh, Chuck Thomas, Rob Tench, Vicki Sipe, Robin Barnard Moskal, Lynda L. Aldana, Erica A. Owusu
Published West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2019]

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Series Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences
Charleston insights in library, archival, and information sciences.
Contents Part 1. Collaborations between acquisitions and collection management -- Part 2. Collaborations between acquisitions and cataloging -- Part 3. Acquisitions, interlibrary loan, and reserves -- Part 4. Collaborations between acquisitions and e-resource management -- Part 5. Collaborations between acquisitions and the digital repository -- Part 6. Consortial acquisitions
Summary "This book explores ways in which libraries can reach new levels of service, quality, and efficiency while minimizing cost by collaborating in acquisitions. In consortial acquisitions, a number of libraries work together, usually in an existing library consortia, to leverage size to support acquisitions in each individual library. In cross-functional acquisitions, acquisitions collaborates to support other library functions. For the library acquisitions manager, technical services manager, or the library director, awareness of different options for effective consortial and cross-functional acquisitions allows for the optimization of staff and resources to reach goals. This work presents those options in the form of case studies, as well as useful analysis of the benefits and challenges of each. By supporting each other's acquisitions services in a consortium, libraries leverage size to get better prices, and share systems and expertise to maximize resources while minimizing costs. Within libraries, the library acquisitions function can be combined with other library functions in a unit with more than one purpose, or acquisitions can develop a close working relationship with another unit to support their work. This book surveys practice at different libraries and at different library consortia, and presents a detailed description and analysis of a variety of practices for how acquisitions units support each other within a consortium, and how they work with other library units, specifically collection management, cataloging, interlibrary loan, and the digital repository, in the form of case studies. A final sections of the book covers fundamentals of collaboration"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes This work is licensed under a Creative Commons license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 23, 2019)
Subject Academic libraries -- Acquisitions -- United States
Academic libraries -- Acquisitions -- United States -- Case studies
Library cooperation -- United States
Library cooperation -- United States -- Case studies
Acquisitions & collection development.
Language Arts & Disciplines / Library & Information Science / Collection Development.
Academic libraries -- Acquisitions
Library cooperation
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Form Electronic book
Author Flinchbaugh, Michelle, 1967- editor.
Thomas, Charles Franklin, 1967- editor.
Tench, Rob, 1953- editor.
Sipe, Vicki, 1955- editor.
Moskal, Robin Barnard, 1954- editor.
Aldana, Lynda L., 1969- editor.
Owusu, Erica A., 1986- editor.
LC no. 2019026490
ISBN 9781612495798
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