Serials Collection Management in Recessionary Times

<p>Strategic planning, collaboration, continual stewardship, best practices, and re-engineering can provide librarians with a toolkit of innovative strategies that meets the worst of economic times with bold, persistent experimentation.</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue of <em>The Serials Librarian</em>.</p> <p>1. Introduction: Serials Collection Management in Recessionary Times: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats <em>Karen G. Lawson </em>2. The Global Economic Crisis: What Libraries and Publishers Can Do and Are Doing <em>Karen Hunter</em> and <em>Robert Bruning </em>3. Evaluating Usage and Impact of Networked Electronic Resources through Point-of-Use Surveys: a MINES for Libraries Study <em>Martha Kyrillidou</em>, <em>Terry Plum</em> and<em> Bruce Thompson </em>4. A Steep Part of the Landscape: Serials, Libraries, and the Challenges Faced by Higher Education <em>Patricia Maloney </em>5. Open Access Journals in College Library Collections <em>William H. Walters </em>6. Shared Digital Access and Preservation Strategies for Serials at the Center for Research Libraries <em>Bernard F. Reilly</em> and <em>James Simon </em>7. The Paper Divide <em>Wayne Pedersen </em>8. A Reprise, Or Round Three: Using a Database Management Program as a Decision Support System for the Cancellation of Serials <em>Judith M. Nixon </em>9. Assessing Your Vendors’ Viability <em>Virginia Kay Williams</em> and <em>Kathy Downes </em>10. All In This Together: a Subscription Vendor’s View <em>Allen Powell</em>, <em>Kittie Henderson</em> and <em>John Lumsden </em>11. So Poor We Can’t Even Pay Attention: Identifying Important Serials for Political Science During the Great Recession <em>Edward Goedeken</em> 12. Managing Resources to Maximize Serials Access: The Case of the Small Liberal Arts College <em>Susan H. Zappen </em>13. Raising the Library Profile to Fight Budget Challenges <em>Lynda James-Gilboe </em>14. Thinking Outside of the Box: Fundraising During Economic Downturns <em>Carolyn Taylor </em>15. The View from the UK: the Economic Crisis and Serials Acquisitions on an Offshore Island <em>Tony Kidd</em></p>