Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections

Citation

Lee Eden, B. (2007), "Integrating Print and Digital Resources in Library Collections", Collection Building, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 36-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/01604950710721584

This book examines the integration of print and digital resources in library collections. As with most Haworth Press books, its content emanates from a special double‐themed, simultaneously‐published issue of one of its library journals, in this case The Acquisitions Librarian.

The book is divided into three sections. After a brief introduction by the editor on the topic, the first section on Issues and Opinions contains two chapters. David Ball discusses the implications of electronic resource licenses, and Bethany Levrault examines how academic reference departments have gone about moving away from print resources and integrating digital ones into their collections. In the second section, Research and Analysis, five chapters are presented on the topic. James Buczynski provides an interesting lesson that disproves the idea of the computer science digital library from his own institution. Jay Shorten then enlightens the reader with what libraries really do with electronic resources, at least in 2003. Sarah Robbins and her colleagues examine whether research libraries really are changing from print to electronic access. Acquisitions for the digital library as a revelation or revolution is the topic of Kathleen Morris and Betsy Larson, while a ten‐year study of print serial use decline in a small academic medical library is presented by Karen Rosati.

Section 3 contains six case studies under the heading, Histories and Projects. The history of innovation in the integrated library system (ILS) is examined by Tracy Primich and Caroline Richardson. Shifting print and electronic serials priorities at the University of Montana is discussed by Michelle Millet and Susan Mueller. A real‐life example of the library and faculty senate working together to legitimize a serials evaluation process is given by Sandhya Srivastava and Pamela Harpel‐Burke. Cutting serials in the 21st century is likened to a shell game by Richard Jasper, and a model for collection integration at Iowa State University's Ames Library is given by Julia Dickinson and Sarah George. Finally, an examination of how integrating resources has and can be done in an education library is discussed by Justina Osa.

For anyone whose job is related to working with print and electronic collection development and acquisition, this timely resource is worth the time to read.