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![]() | Anderson, Richard Bryan | Acquisitions issues in serials management | Welcome to the first installment in the "Acquisitions Issues in Serials Management" column! The purpose of this inaugural essay is threefold: First, to explain the scope and purpose of the column; second, to invite future contributors; and third, to set out some potentially fruitful topics of di... | Purchasing options; Collection development; Price inflation | 2007-08-19 |
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![]() | Paiva, Marie Clare P. | Adventures in an Ethiopian library | During my sabbatical time from mid-September 2007 to mid-March 2008, I worked as a volunteer librarian at Addis Ababa University (AAU) in the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Library (IESL) on a collection development project in Ethiopia. | University libraries; Collection development; Ethiopian studies | 2008 |
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![]() | Landesman, Margaret M. | Multi-volume reference sets-have they a future | For the past few years, I've felt badly about the sales representatives from major microform publishers who come to visit hoping to sell microform collections to the library. It seems a cruel thing for a publisher to do - to send a representative out in this day and budget to pitch microfilm to libr... | Libraries; Collection development; Reference resources | 2001-11 |
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![]() | Landesman, Margaret M. | Our users are your users: blurring the lines between academic and public libraries | Academic and public libraries share core values and goals. We share users. We can get closest to filling our mission if we work at this together and if both sets of librarians work at telling both sets of users about both sets of libraries. | Libraries; Collection development; Library use | 2008 |