Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources, and: Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices, and: Strategies for Building Digitized Collections (review)

Abstract

These three offerings from the Digital Library Federation (DLF) are testimony to the energy and sense of purpose that Dan Greenstein has brought to the young organization. Each booklet surveys collection development policies and practices currently in place for different niches of the digital library. Taken together, they provide an informed and intelligent overview of where we are today in the business of developing and managing electronic collections. For individual libraries as well as for the DLF and other consortia, these studies yield that conspectus of data and issues necessary for the generation of policies and practices. And for librarians who do not attend DLF meetings, they are proof of its existence, and that is a good thing indeed.