The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines - Softcover

Kovacs, Diane K.

 
9781555706647: The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines

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Kovacs, an internet and web trainer and consultant who has degrees in library and information science and instructional technology, provides a guide to strategies, tools, and resources for librarians wanting to develop, expand, or improve their electronic resources. She details basic principles for creating a collection plan, including management, licensing, and cataloging issues. She then addresses subject areas--ready-reference, government documents, genealogy, business, employment, legal and medical information, math, engineering, education and homework, the arts, the humanities, and biological, physical, earth, social, and computer sciences--and selection processes, evaluation, top resources, and organization criteria for each, along with examples from libraries around the world. Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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