Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development

Download or read book Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development written by Milton T. Wolf and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This solidly researched book will help you assess your library's situation, identify new opportunities, and find powerful new ways to perform the essential tasks of archiving, preservation, and digitization. Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development shares the experiences of successful consortia all over the world. It examines the costs and benefits of regional, national, and international cooperatives and debates the varying uses of centered and decentralized models of resource sharing. It offers practical advice for overcoming specific obstacles to success, including lengthy approval processes, fixation on volume count instead of quality, faculty resistance to reforming scholarly communications, and publishing monopolies.