TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lawson, Karen 
TI  - Serials collection management in recessionary times
SN  - 9780415589611
U1  - 025.1732  
PY  - 2011///
CY  - London , New York
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Acquisition of serial publications
KW  - Libraries and electronic publishing.
KW  - Periodicals
KW  - Research libraries
N1  - "This book is a reproduction of The Serials Librarian, vol. 59, issues 2, 3-4"--T.p. verso; "This book was published as a special issue of The Serials Librarian"--half title; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - This book covers the implications for libraries of a broad range of technological and economic challenges. These challenges include the fallout from the global economic crisis, the positioning of usage statistics, the advent of open access scholarship, database management, responding to budgetary constrictions and general access to serials. Taken as a whole, this collection provides practitioners in the library sector and in higher education with a wide variety of insights on the strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities involved with serials collection management in recessionary times, written by academic librarians, vendors, publishers, fundraisers, and higher education professionals
ER  -