New Directions in Serials Management: The Experience of One Academic Library

  • Keith Clouten
  • , Marilyn Gane

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Abstract

The explosive growth of journal literature during the last quarter century, compounded with price inflation and diminishing income, produced a serious crisis for academic libraries. Attempted solutions through multiple journal cancellations, transferring funds from monograph budgets, and devising allocation formulas have served only to anger faculty. A new approach is needed, based on resources management that evaluates and utilizes a range of options now available for accessing and delivering scholarly information. The experience of one library in its struggle with the crisis and its development of a new model for serials management is described.
Original languageAmerican English
Pages (from-to)27-39
JournalCollection Management
Volume27
Issue number1
DOIs
StatePublished - 2002

Keywords

  • Serials crisis
  • serials management
  • journal cancellation
  • formulas
  • resource management
  • Andrews University

Disciplines

  • Collection Development and Management

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