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Find practical and ready-to-implement advice in this authoritative resource for building, growing, managing, and maintaining your electronic resources collection. Library Journal deemed the first edition of Diane Kovacs’ groundbreaking guide “an essential purchase for all libraries”. This new edition covers over 15 subject areas, including jobs and employment, business, medicine, law, social sciences, engineering, computer science, physical sciences, earth sciences, arts and humanities, and more.

Kovacs extensively updates her coverage of Web collection development resources, licensing web-accessible resources and real-life e-library success stories. New and expanded chapters are dedicated to e-library management and maintenance including guidance on negotiating e-resource licenses and collection analysis. For each subject area, core collection development tools have been expanded to include Web 2.0 related services and government documents.

A bonus companion Web site – available only to purchasers of the book – features ready-made, annotated links to all the sites in the book’s recommended core reference collections in each subject area that readers can import into their library’s Web site or OPAC.

 "...for those concerned with benchmarking their collections or developing new subject areas, this book will be an invaluable guide."
-- ONLINE, January-February 2010
 
"...a handy guide...The value of this guide is its exclusive focus on e-resource collection development and the special considerations associated with it...The Kovacs Guide is a welcome addition to the collection development literature available to librarians"
-- Collection Management 35(2) April-June 2010
 
"...an authoritative, easy-to-use resource for librarians and information professionals engaged in electronic collection development....a valuable resource that is highly recommended for large public library systems, community college, and academic libraries."
-- ARBA Online, March 2010
 
"...especially useful are individual sections citing specific Web sites for e-collection sources in ready reference, business, medicine, biology, engineering, physical and earth sciences and humanities...offers librarians much useful information."
-- Booklist, February 2010
 
"Expanded and updated, this edition incorporates new Web 2.0 services and government e-documents. It also covers the integration of the library catalog and library services, has a greater variety and scope of fee-based databases, and has a greater variety of electronic journals and books."
-- SciTech Book News, December 2009
 

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