Bibliocycle

Around the information landscape with Elisabeth Tully, Director of the Oliver Wendell Holmes Library

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Entries Tagged as 'Collection Development'

Pricing anomaly

January 16th, 2009 · No Comments

One of the “hats” that I wear is manager of the collection. The seven instructional librarians on the library staff each are affiliated with one or more academic departments, and are responsible for getting to know the curriculum, the faculty, and the appropriate section of our collection.  Based on this knowledge, and utilizing a number [...]

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Electronic access to print materials

September 11th, 2008 · No Comments

This morning I read in the Chronicle of Higher Education that Duke University has just announced that it will offer libraries subscription access to all of Duke University Press’s printed titles in electronic form through the e-Duke Books Scholarly Program. This move continues a trend in academic libraries that we have been tracking in the [...]

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