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Ward identifies the challenges and proposes solutions to shaping physical collections for today's academic library.

Academic libraries --- Collection management (Libraries) --- Discarding of books, periodicals, etc. --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Gestion des collections (Bibliothèques) --- Elagage dans les bibliothèques --- Collection development --- Développement des collections --- Book acquisition --- Weeding (Books) --- Withdrawals of books, periodicals, etc. --- Withdrawing of books, periodicals, etc. --- Collections management (Libraries) --- Libraries --- Library collection management --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Collection management

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"Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The three main sections contain contributions by experts in the publisher/vendor arena, as well as by librarians who report on both the challenges of offering and managing e-books and on the issues surrounding patron use of e-books. The case study section offers perspectives from seven different sizes and types of libraries whose librarians describe innovative and thought-provoking projects involving e-books. Read about perspectives on e-books from organizations as diverse as a commercial publisher and an association press. Learn about the viewpoint of a jobber. Find out about the e-book challenges facing librarians, such as the quest to control costs in the patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) model, how to solve the dilemma of resource sharing with e-books, and how to manage PDA in the consortial environment. See what patron use of e-books reveals about reading habits and disciplinary differences. Finally, in the case study section, discover how to promote scholarly e-books, how to manage an e-reader checkout program, and how one library replaced most of its print collection with e-books. These and other examples illustrate how innovative librarians use e-books to enhance users' experiences with scholarly works"--

Libraries --- Academic libraries --- Scholarly electronic publishing. --- Libraries and electronic publishing. --- Bibliothèques --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Edition électronique savante --- Bibliothèques et édition électronique --- Special collections --- Electronic books. --- Collection development. --- Fonds spéciaux --- Livres numériques --- Développement des collections --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Electronic publishing and libraries --- Electronic publishing --- Electronic scholarly publishing --- Learning and scholarship --- Scholarly publishing --- Collection development (Libraries) --- Documentation --- Public institutions --- Librarians --- Services to colleges and universities --- Library special collections --- Special collections in libraries --- Library resources --- Special collections. --- Electronic books --- Scholarly electronic publishing --- Libraries and electronic publishing --- Collection development --- Libraries - Special collections - Electronic books --- Academic libraries - Collection development --- Academic libraries - United States - Case studies

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Library automation --- Higher education --- Library management --- Academic libraries --- Decision support systems --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Systèmes d'aide à la décision --- Evaluation --- Leicester Polytechnic. --- -Decision support systems --- 025.12 --- Management information systems --- Telematics --- College libraries --- Libraries, University and college --- University libraries --- Libraries --- Libraries and colleges --- Public libraries --- Bibliotheekbeheer: statistieken, rapporten; prestatiemeting --- Services to colleges and universities --- Leicester Polytechnic. Library --- -Leicester Polytechnic Library --- -Evaluation --- 025.12 Bibliotheekbeheer: statistieken, rapporten; prestatiemeting --- Bibliothèques universitaires --- Systèmes d'aide à la décision --- Leicester Polytechnic Library --- Evaluation. --- Academic libraries - Evaluation