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The Internet and Acquisitions

Sources and Resources for Development

By: Mary E. Timmons

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Hardcover | 22 November 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Upgrade your library?s acquisitions methods using The Internet and Acquisitions: Sources and Resources for Development. The methods and suggestions in this bookwill help you learn to place orders for books and findinformation on needed topics of collection development on the Internet with ease. From this book, you will learn how to increase the efficiency of your replacement copy searches by reducing your dependency on used book dealers. Theinformation contained in The Internet and Acquisitions will help you to enhance and enlarge your library?s repertoire of access points to better serve your patrons. The dynamic world of library services cannot be best served through the static processes of acquiring materials in known fields. For example, web sites related to electronic journals can be manipulated through searching, linking, and other features inherent to computer databases. With The Internet and Acquisitions you will use these skills to provide patrons with access to the most up to date information. Through the informative book The Internet and Acquisitions, you will gain new insight into how the Internet can help you meet the challenges of acquisitions by:

discovering the Readers’Advisory Service counterpart on the Internetfor researching new materials
learning how you can eliminate the past problems of the tedious mail-order process by ordering books and journals online or by CD-ROM
exploring information from two libraries who integrated the world wide web and discover how some tasks were changed while others were reinforced
using the Internet to garner information about authors to develop a specific collection or to learn about new authors
locating material on specific subject matter by utilizing the versatilityof search engines

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Non-Fiction Computing & I.T.Digital Lifestyle & Online World: Consumer & User Guides Internet Guides & Online Services Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Library & Info Sciences Acquisitions & Collection Development Computer Science Library & Information Services

Introduction	p. 1
Reader's Advisory Web Sites	p. 5
An Overview of Readers' Advisory Service with Evaluations of Related Websites	p. 21
Book Publisher Sites on the Internet's World Wide Web	p. 35
The Association of American University Presses: The AAUP's Internet Presence	p. 49
Electronic Journals on the Internet	p. 63
Acquisitions, the Internet and the Academic Library	p. 71
Information About Authors on the Internet: Sixteen Great Web Sites	p. 81
The Internet and Classical Civilization	p. 97
Acquisition of Young Adult Materials and the Internet: A Review of Eight Sites	p. 117
Index	p. 129
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