Libraries and Electronic Resources

<p>Keep your library a step ahead in the changing world of information technology!</p><p>As the Internet adds new dimensions to the relationship between information and user digital libraries face new challenges in managing electronic resources. Libraries and Electronic Resources: New Partnerships New Practices New Perspectives addresses challenges and new roles for libraries in creating innovative models of scholarly communication establishing standards for e-book publishing influencing consortial site licensing on a global basis and enhancing access to digital collections. This practical guide highlights current trends in e-resource management focusing on economic information and publishing issues and provides valuable information on the new roles libraries (and librarians) will play in the digital age.</p><p>This vital book contains information on:</p><ul> <li>the evolution of relationships between university presses and research libraries </li> <li>how the commercialization of scholarly publishing is at the center of the economic problems faced by libraries </li> <li>California Digital Library's eScholarship program which fosters faculty-led innovation in the scholarly publishing </li> <li>Project Euclid a joint electronic publishing initiative of Cornell University Libraries and Duke University Press </li> <li>content standards for electronic books publishing </li> <li>global consortial activities in the area of site licenses for electronic resources </li> <li>new roles for librarians in creating digital libraries of instructional resources</li> </ul><p>The successful digital library will be one that keeps pace with the ever-changing world of information technology. Library professionals must stay up to speed in adopting new models working in tandem with educators to re-define the learning process to incorporate electronic publishing and resources. Libraries and Electronic Resources: New Partnerships New Practices New Perspectives is an essential guide to the Internet’s impact on e-resources management--past present and future.</p>