Vendor evaluation and acquisition budgets
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Vendor evaluation and acquisition budgets
Haworth Press, c1992
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Papers from a conference jointly sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Foundation, Feb. 21-22, 1991
"Has also been published as Journal of library administration, volume 16, number 3, 1992"--T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references
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Description
Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs on library budgets and management in this groundbreaking book. Library administrators will benefit from the practical advice in these perceptive chapters evolved from the 1991 University of Oklahoma Libraries and University of Oklahoma Foundation annual conference. Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets presents well-rounded views of the contemporary library budget situation from a variety of contributors, including practicing librarians, researchers, and book vendor representatives. Find applicable strategies for meeting the library budget and management challenges that rising costs will create in the 1990s. Chapters thoroughly cover the relationship between vendors and acquisitions budgets, including current trends affecting the information environment, libraries, and vendors; changes in library-dealer relationships resulting from economic and technological factors; and conditions of research and the dissemination of information from published and unpublished avenues. Library managers and administrators will find pragmatic advice to use in their own libraries, such as suggestions for dealing with service charges and discounts, studies of use patterns and cost-effectiveness of current collection development decisions, vendors'perspective on criteria used to evaluate book vendors, and a collection of 30 different strategies for stretching the acquisitions budget.
Table of Contents
- Contents Introduction The Old Order Changes: A Plan for Action What's Your Money Worth? Materials Budgets and the Selection and Evaluation of Book and Serial Vendors The Library/Dealer Relationship: Reflections on the Ideal Some Measures of Cost Effectiveness in Library Collections Listening to the Technology
- or, Libraries and the "Higher Capitalism" Strategies for Stretching the Collection Budget Strategies for Selecting Vendors and Evaluating Their Performance--From the Vendor's Perspective Vendor Selection, Vendor Collection or Vendor Defection Reference Notes Included
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