Essential Partners in Collection Development: Vendors and Music Librarians

Zager, Daniel

doi:10.1353/not.2007.0049

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“…Zager (2007) shows, however, that vendors can be very helpful in providing information – about new editions, for example – and it may be assumed that the helpfulness could extend into different types of digital content/application. Zager suggests that libraries can exercise common sense and pick and choose for individual benefit – in competitive convergence – and thus participate actively in the process.…”

Section: Business Theory: Synergy Complimentarism Competitive Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

“…When music librarians assess their working relationships with vendors, Zager (2007) notes a problem – results are often based on response time and degree of completeness of the order. This kind of assessment ignores patron needs.…”

Section: Assessmentmentioning

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“…As a partial solution for music collections, Zager (2007) suggests approval plans for purchasing books and scores in standing‐order style contexts. He shows that the flipside of vendor/publisher control could be that vendors/publishers may be able to supply value‐added bibliographic information to complement standard review publications.…”

Section: Positive and Negative Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cooperative collection management in music: past and present

Madden

2010

New Library World

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to provide a general review and historical context for cooperative and collaborative management of musical materials.Design/methodology/approachThe paper explores historical instances and modern contextual parallels. It applies management of music – within collaborative knowledge creation hierarchies – to conceptual continua in collections. It applies theoretical business concepts to music libraries and vendors. It explores changing roles of subject specialists and the roles of business partnerships.FindingsSelection of musical materials has become less the realm of subject specialists, and more that of corporations, as publisher's power spreads across supply chains. This power has influenced musical content and access, both in historical and modern contexts. Corporations should yield to the wisdom of subject specialists and librarians, to the benefit of the art of music.Practical implicationsFor cost‐saving purposes alone, cooperative collection management of music is generally too troublesome to undertake. Assessment, in terms of mutual benefit of access, use, and conceptual continua across collections, is practically impossible, owing to myriad conditions. Problems of cooperative business partnering between vendors and music libraries relate to the material complexity and assessment. Cooperation requires standardized policy statements detailing individual and collective goals/outcomes. These policy statements are speculative and unpredictable.Originality/valueThe paper brings an historical champion of music library cooperation (Otto Kinkeldey) into the light of modern day, and reveals key aspects of cooperation/collaboration for music materials that remain of the same nature today as in history. It provides context for future cooperative initiatives.

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Section: Business Theory: Synergy Complimentarism Competitive Convergencementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Assessmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Positive and Negative Aspectsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Cooperative collection management in music: past and present

Madden

2010

New Library World

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Music score approval plans in research libraries: A survey of librarian satisfaction with and without approval plans

Cox

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Ballestro

2009

Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services

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In this study, the researchers submitted a music score approval plan survey to all ARL libraries. Two surveys were created, one for libraries with music score approval plans, one for those without. Forty-four surveys were returned. The authors' purpose was to analyze and discuss the survey results, incorporating elements of the scholarly work preceding this study. Discussions, roundtables, and listservs participated in by music librarians over the years formed the basis of the topic at hand. The goal was to ascertain whether these discussions and underlying assumptions of approval plans held true to the real world.

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The Art of Crafting Music Score Approval Plans: An Ongoing Process

Hooper

2016

Collection Management

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Essential Partners in Collection Development: Vendors and Music Librarians

Cited by 6 publications

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Cooperative collection management in music: past and present

Cooperative collection management in music: past and present

Music score approval plans in research libraries: A survey of librarian satisfaction with and without approval plans

The Art of Crafting Music Score Approval Plans: An Ongoing Process

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