Abstract
What effect does the steady increase in the cost of serials have on a technological university library? What are the pros and cons of alternative methods of communication and how will these change the librarian's traditional role of ‘information broker’?
Highlights
What effect does the steady increase in the cost of &haw on a technological university library? What me the pros and cons of alternatiw methods of communication and how will these change the librarian's traditioml TO&? of 'information broker'?
The distinction being made here is between cost indices and price indices; the Bath figures will not exactly parallel price indices such as the Library and Information StatisticsUnit at Loughborough University's indices of the average prices of books in the UK and the USA, or Blackwell's annual Average Prices of Periodicals index
A few e-journals are subject to traditional editorial controls such as peer review. These first two points of comparison are central to the librarian's traditional role of 'information broker', a role which will doubtless become increasingly demanding
Summary
What effect does the steady increase in the cost of &haw on a technological university library? What me the pros and cons of alternatiw methods of communication and how will these change the librarian's traditioml TO&? of 'information broker'?. What effect does the steady increase in the cost of &haw on a technological university library? What me the pros and cons of alternatiw methods of communication and how will these change the librarian's traditioml TO&? The University of Bath has supported the inflation of book and serials costs in its library over the past four years and Figure 1 represents a fairly typical picture to anybody who has been involved in academic library management over that period. Expenditure on books has increased by 20%, whilst expenditure on periodicals has increased by 57%. The situation is not one where serials have been squeezing books; the library has been given funding to meet its benchmarks for acquisitions: 2,200 current subscriptions and 10,000 books a year.
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