Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fifth Edition
Chapters Eleven through Fourteen
Related Websites
Chapter 11: Distributors and Vendors
ABAA
-- Website of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America.
http://abaa.org
AB
Bookman's Weekly -- Provides links to condition guidelines, book sales,
book values, glossaries and literary awards.
http://www.abbookman.com/
Abebooks.Com
-- A source for new and used books.
http://www.abebooks.com/
ACQWEB's
Directory of Publishers and Vendors
http://www.acqweb.org/pubr.html
Alibris
-- "Books you thought you'd never find."
http://www.alibris.com/
Baker
& Taylor
http://www.btol.com
Barnes
and Noble
http://www.bn.com
Basch
Subscriptions
http://www.basch.com/
Bibliofind
-- A rare and used book service presented in conjunction with Amazon.com.
http://www.bibliofind.com
Bibliomag.com
-- Online magazine resource.
http://www.bibliomag.com
Blackwell's
http://bookshop.blackwell.com/bobus/scripts/welcome.jsp
BookFinder.Com
-- A source for new, out of print, and used books.
http://www.bookfinder.com
BookFinder Report -- Reports on most frequently requested OP titles.
http://report.bookfinder.com
Brodart
TIPS -- Information on the Title Information Preview Service (TIPS).
http://www.books.brodart.com/services/tips.htm
Coutts
http://www.coutts-ls.com/
EBSCO
http://www.ebsco.com
Emery-Pratt
http://www.emery-pratt.com/
Edgar
-- SEC Filings and forms.
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml
Ingram
Book Group
http://www.ingrambook.com/home.asp
International
League of Antiquarian Booksellers
http://www.ilab-lila.com/
Majors.com
https://www.majors.com/
McNaughton
Plan -- From Brodart Books.
http://www.books.brodart.com/onlinetools/mcnaughtonbooks.htm
Powell's
Books -- Website for Powell's City of Books, Oregon.
http://www.powells.com/
ProQuest/UMI
Books on Demand
http://wwwlib.umi.com/bod
YBP
Library Services
http://www.ybp.com
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Chapter 12: Fiscal Management
EBSCO
Print Subscriptions
- Serials price projections and cost history.
http://www.ebsco.com/home/printsubs/priceproj.asp
Five year journal price increase history (2000-2004) .
In PDF format
http://www.ebsco.com/home/printsubs/priceoverview.pdf
Harrassowitz
http://www.harrassowitz.de/
Library
Materials Budget Survey -- From ARL.
http://www.arl.org/scomm/lmbs/index.html
Library
Research Service Tools -- Budget calculators and comparison tools.
http://www.lrs.org/tools.asp
Price
and Output Reports for Collection Management -- List of reports maintained
by Yale University Library.
http://www.library.yale.edu/colldev/index.html
Universal
Currency Converter -- From Xe.com.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
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Chapter 13: Deselection
Automated
Retrieval System
-- Description of the ARS facility at Sonoma State University.
http://libweb.sonoma.edu/about/ars.html
Automated
Storage and Retrieval System
-- Description of the ASRS system at CSU, Northridge.
http://library.csun.edu/asrs.html
Automated
Storage/Retrieval and Return/Sorting Systems -- Overview by Richard Boss.
http://www.ala.org/ala/pla/plapubs/technotes/asrsystems.htm
Spacesaver
http://www.spacesaver.com/
Sunlink
-- "Weed of the Month" Guidelines for weeding geared towards K-12
collections.
http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu/weed
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Chapter 14: Evaluation
Automated Collection Analysis Service -- Subscription Service provided by OCLC.
Login as "Guest" to view reports.
http://acas.oclc.org
Collection
Assesment -- Collection Development Training (CDT) sponsored by the Arizona
State Library.
http://www.dlapr.lib.az.us/cdt/collass.htm
Collection
Assesment Techniques -- Resource list prepared by the University of Wyoming
Libraries.
http://www-lib.uwyo.edu/cdo/collass.htm
Evaluating
Library Collections -- An Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights
from the American Library Association.
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/interpretations/evaluatinglibrary.htm
LibQUAL™
-- Survey designed to measure user perceptions of collections and library service
quality.
http://www.libqual.org/
LibQUAL™ Publications -- Bibliography of resources on the LibQUAL+™ Survey.
http://www.libqual.org/Publications/index.cfm
WorldCat
Collection Analysis Service -- Service developed by OCLC.
http://www.oclc.org/collectionanalysis/
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Contact the authors: G. Edward Evans and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro
Last Updated: May 2005