Community, collaboration, and collections
Subtitle: the writings of Ross Atkinson
By: Robert Alan and Bonnie MacEwan, editors ; with an introduction by Sarah Thomas.
Contributors: Alan, Robert.; MacEwan, Bonnie.
Publisher: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 307
Subjects: Collection management (Libraries); Libraries -- Aims and objectives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Uses and abuses of cooperation in a digital age; title: Toward a rationale for future event-based information services; title: Contingency and contradiction : the place(s) of the library at the dawn of the new millennium; title: A rationale for the redesign of scholarly information exchange; title: Toward a redefinition of library services; title: Managing traditional materials in an online environment : some definitions and distinctions for a future collection management; title: Library functions, scholarly communication, and the foundations of the digital library : laying claim to the control zone; title: Humanities scholarship and the research library; title: Access, ownership, and the future of collection development; title: The academic library collection in an online environment; title: Crisis and opportunity : reevaluating acquisitions budgeting in an age of transition; title: The coming contest; title: Networks, hypertext, and academic information services : some longer-range implications; title: Mass deacidification in the context of access time reduction; title: In defense of relativism; title: The acquisitions librarian as change agent in the transition to the electronic library; title: The conditions of collection development; title: Text mutability and collection administration; title: Preservation and collection development toward a political synthesis; title: The role of abstraction in bibliography and collection development; title: Old forms, new forms : the challenge of collection development; title: Preparation for privation : the year's work in collection management, 1987; title: Selection for preservation : a materialistic approach; title: The language of the levels : reflections on the communication of collection development policy; title: The citation as intertext : toward a theory of the selection process.