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Summary
Summary
Offering multiple perspectives from electronic resource professionals at world-renowned libraries such as Harvard, the University of Michigan, Duke, and Northeastern, this book provides a comprehensive and well-rounded e-book education.
Reviews 2
Booklist Review
The purpose of this manual is to give guidance and best practices on all things e-book management, from the decision to start a collection onward. Academic and public librarians have contributed to this three-part volume. Part 1, E-books in Context, gives a history of the format as well as insight into the e-book publishing industry. Part 2, E-books in Detail, provides librarians with detailed guides to selecting, budgeting, cataloging, and assessing e-book collections. An entire chapter is dedicated to e-books in public libraries, and another on licensing. Part 3, E-books in Practice, outlines six real-life scenarios, ranging from a secondary school's transition to a completely electronic collection to a university library's staff reorganization due to e-resource management. Sample MARC records and lists of questions for vendors are examples of what is available in this rich guide. An excellent resource appropriate for all librarians considering or managing e-book collections.--Compton-Dzak, Emily Copyright 2010 Booklist
Choice Review
Aimed at librarians looking to dive into the e-book fray and help those in it streamline and better manage their e-book processes and collections, this title features a wealth of useful information. It is divided into three sections. The chapters in "E-Books in Context" provide background about the advent of e-books, with both technological and publishing perspectives represented. "E-Books in Detail" includes chapters that thoroughly discuss managing these materials, from the selection process to cataloging to collection assessment. The last section, "E-Books in Practice," comprises short (5-6 pages each) chapters illustrating how e-books function in a variety of library types, from high school to public to small and large academic library settings. The charts are especially useful, providing succinctly detailed information ranging from differences in e-readers and vendor subscription models to a comparison of how acquisitions models affect cataloging workflows. Although many chapter authors work in health sciences libraries, the concepts and issues covered are applicable to all libraries. This book provides a solid snapshot of the current state of best practices in the world of e-book collecting. Summing Up: Recommended. Library professionals/practitioners. H. C. Williams University of Washington
