Abstract

‘Rethinking collections: approaches, business models, experiences’: the UKSG One-Day Conference, November 2012

Highlights

  • The UKSG One-Day Conference consisted of six presentations on differing aspects of collection development

  • For those who were not able to attend, Insights persuaded three of the speakers to write a brief summary of their presentation, in which they focus on the themes of ‘the consortial collection’, ‘the library-facilitated collection’ and ‘the discovered collection’

  • The remaining three presentations came from Robert Faber (Oxford University Press), looking at how reference materials add value to library collections, from Maxim van Gisbergen (Swets), looking at how libraries can use data to inform evidence-based purchasing, and from Aviva Weinstein (Maverick Publishing Specialists), who took as her theme the increasing use of tablets, mobile technologies and e-textbooks, the so-called portable collection

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Introduction

The UKSG One-Day Conference consisted of six presentations on differing aspects of collection development. For those who were not able to attend, Insights persuaded three of the speakers to write a brief summary of their presentation, in which they focus on the themes of ‘the consortial collection’, ‘the library-facilitated collection’ and ‘the discovered collection’. The remaining three presentations came from Robert Faber (Oxford University Press), looking at how reference materials add value to library collections, from Maxim van Gisbergen (Swets), looking at how libraries can use data to inform evidence-based purchasing, and from Aviva Weinstein (Maverick Publishing Specialists), who took as her theme the increasing use of tablets, mobile technologies and e-textbooks, the so-called portable collection

The consortial collection
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ANDREW BARKER Head of Library Academic Services University of East Anglia

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