“…52 Berring advocates that law librarians assert their professional expertise in collaborating with information providers and vendors in the development and marketing of new digital products. 53 This is based on his belief that law librarians best understand their users and how to train them in using information, skills that have value to vendors. Shreeves in discussing the challenges of collection building states that, "Collection development librarians may find that, in the future, their expertise may be the most important resource they have to share rather than the collections they are building."…”
Taking as her starting point the ideas presented at a recent conference on cooperative collection development, Ms. Hinchcliff discusses their applicability to the academic law library world. The issues under scrutiny are some of those most under consideration today, topics like new initiatives in scholarly publishing, cooperative purchasing of electronic resources, and preservation. Many of these ideas are examined in light of recent proposals made by the American Association of Law Libraries."Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development," a conference hosted by The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) 1 was held in November, 1999. The purpose of the conference was to assemble a group of knowledgeable, experienced, and diverse information professionals from academic research libraries and consortia who are involved in the planning and implementation of cooperative collection development programs. 2 Therefore, the conference was attended largely by academic librarians. Surprisingly of the approximately one hundred and forty participants, there were no medical librarians and I
“…52 Berring advocates that law librarians assert their professional expertise in collaborating with information providers and vendors in the development and marketing of new digital products. 53 This is based on his belief that law librarians best understand their users and how to train them in using information, skills that have value to vendors. Shreeves in discussing the challenges of collection building states that, "Collection development librarians may find that, in the future, their expertise may be the most important resource they have to share rather than the collections they are building."…”
Taking as her starting point the ideas presented at a recent conference on cooperative collection development, Ms. Hinchcliff discusses their applicability to the academic law library world. The issues under scrutiny are some of those most under consideration today, topics like new initiatives in scholarly publishing, cooperative purchasing of electronic resources, and preservation. Many of these ideas are examined in light of recent proposals made by the American Association of Law Libraries."Creating New Strategies for Cooperative Collection Development," a conference hosted by The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) 1 was held in November, 1999. The purpose of the conference was to assemble a group of knowledgeable, experienced, and diverse information professionals from academic research libraries and consortia who are involved in the planning and implementation of cooperative collection development programs. 2 Therefore, the conference was attended largely by academic librarians. Surprisingly of the approximately one hundred and forty participants, there were no medical librarians and I
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