Managing Business Collections in Libraries

by Carolyn A. Sheehy

Overview

Business information is in strong demand by a wide range of library patrons. Academic librarians must meet the needs of undergraduates, graduates, and faculty who require information about businesses for their coursework and research; school librarians must deal with sophisticated financial questions from students in a variety of classes; public librarians must provide investors and job seekers with information about financial trends, prospective employers, and particular industries; and special librarians must provide their users with immediate and current data about clients, competitors, and markets. Business information is available in various forms, such as print sources, CD-ROMs, and on-line databases, and is particularly volatile, with the news of the morning often being more in demand than the news of the week before.

The wide range of patron needs, product types, and constantly changing data makes managing business collections a particularly complex and demanding responsibility. This management guide provides a wealth of information to assist librarians who are new to managing business collections. Chapters written by expert contributors survey such topics as planning, financial and personnel concerns, and facilities management; the selection, acquisition, cataloging, classification, processing, and preservation of print and electronic material; and the provision of access, reference, and information services to both internal and external user communities. A selected annotated bibliography concludes the volume.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313296505
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	12/09/1996
Series:	Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)
Lexile:	1380L (what's this?)

About the Author

CAROLYN A. SHEEHY is Clare and Lucy Oesterle Director of Library Services at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. Formerly, she was Head of the Reference Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Administrative Curator of Special Collections at The Newberry Library. She is the editor of Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries (Greenwood, 1994) and the author of Reference and Information Service in Academic Libraries in Urban and Metropolitan Areas: A Management Handbook, edited by Gerard B. McCabe (Greenwood, 1992). She is the current president of the Illinois Association of College and Research Libraries and a former president of LIBRAS, a consortium of eighteen private Chicago-area academic libraries.

Table of Contents

Historical Foundations, by Carolyn A. Sheehy
Planning, Budget, and Finance, by Judith A. Truelson
Personnel by Rebecca A. Smith and Lynn W. Livingston
Facilities by Robert V. Labaree and Janet Wamsley
Collection Development by Doralyn H. Edwards and Joan B. Fiscella
Acquisitions by Susan Davis and Carol Farmer
Print Resources by Richard P. Orlando
‘IElectronic Resources by Katherine M. Shelfer
Technical Services by Karen A. Wilson
Access Services by Laura Claggett and Denise J. Johnson
Reference and Information Services: Internal User Community by Wendy Diamond
Reference and Information Services: External User Community by Linda Keir Simons
Forecasting the Future by Aline Soules
Selected Annotated Bibliography by Gail T. Graves
Index
About the Editor and Contributors

Editorial Reviews

Business collections are widely used information resources in various formatsprint, CD-ROM, and onlinethat pertain to the creation and development of profit and non-for-profit organizations and enterprises. These collections are complex, demanding, and, in today's world, in a constant state of flux! Sheehy, director of library services at North Central College (Naperville, Illinois) and author/editor of several other reference books on collection management (Managing Performing Arts Collections in Academic and Public Libraries, Professional Reading, LJ 4/1/95), aims here to provide useful, practical assistance to librarians new to managing this type of collection. She has gathered essays written by expert contributors that cover various topics from personnel and facilities to acquisitions and the external user community. All types of libraries and librarians will find this a useful addition for their reference collections.Susan C. Awe, Jefferson Cty. P.L. System, Arvada, Col.

Library Journal

Offers practical advice to academic, public, and specialist business librarians new to providing business information to a clients with various needs. Chapters cover such topics as planning, financial and personnel concerns, and facilities management; the selection, acquisition, cataloging, classification, processing, and preservation of print and electronic material; and the provision of access, reference, and information services on both internal and external user communities. A selected annotated bibliography concludes the volume. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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