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Crisis and Opportunity: Reevaluating Acquisitions Budgeting in an Age of Transition.
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Atkinson, Ross – Journal of Library Administration, 1993
Discussion of the decline in the purchasing power of academic libraries' acquisitions budgets focuses on why and how the acquisitions budget should be integrated into the broader library and institutional budgeting and planning process to help manage the costs of scholarly communication. Highlights include collection development and remodeling the…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Budgeting, Costs, Higher Education
Managing Traditional Materials in an Online Environment: Some Definitions and Distinctions for a Future Collection Management.
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Atkinson, Ross – Library Resources & Technical Services, 1998
Effective management of traditional materials will remain essential even when digital resources dominate scholarly communication. Examines traditional and digital objects in information services; provides an overview of collection management; discusses goal values, information services as purveyor and repository, the role of collection management,…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Change, Higher Education, Information Management
Networks, Hypertext, and Academic Information Services: Some Longer-Range Implications.
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Atkinson, Ross – College and Research Libraries, 1993
Discusses issues relating to scholarly information exchange in the networked environment, focusing on the hypermedia model and nonlinear links within and between texts and the implications for authorial control. The shape of scholarly literature and information exchange in the future and the role of librarians as intermediaries are explored. (52…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Authors, Computer Networks, Electronic Publishing