Acquiring Online Management Reports
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Acquiring Online Management Reports

  1. 164 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Acquiring Online Management Reports

About this book

Save time and money for your library with these current and easy suggestions!Acquiring Online Management Reports offers state-of-the-art information for acquisitions librarians involved in selecting management reports of all types, from fund accounting to decision support systems to usage tracking. Compiling management reports has always been a responsibility of acquisitions librarians. These days, computerized reporting systems have become powerful tools in managing libraries, but they are useful only when the results are accurate, significant, and relevant. Acquiring Online Management Reports discusses techniques for creating and interpreting reports that will give librarians the information they need in an accessible form. This fact-filled guide explores working with vendors, developing cost-effective collection development methods to suit your library, assessing collection growth, and choosing the best electronic resources to help meet your goals.In Acquiring Online Management Reports, librarians will find practical, instantly usable information on pertinent topics, including:

  • the problems created by inaccurate data
  • vendor discussions of how new report systems are designed and implemented
  • the surprising differences between journals'online and print editions
  • expanding usage of decision support systems
  • interpreting the fluctuations of fund accounting information
  • using computer technology to form library consortia
  • computerizing serials controlAcquiring Online Management Reports offers you an array of proven ideas, options, and examples that will enable your library to keep up with changing technologies and client demands.

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Index

Abstracts
on art, 35, 40
for serials, 9, 10f, 27
Academic books
fund accounting for, 78–80
purchasing considerations for, 78–80, 86–87
titles reports of, 78–79, 85–87
vendors of, 78–79
ACCESS database, for management data integration, 69
Access management
concerns about, 23–24, 26
as hybrid process, 132–133
Accuracy, concerns about, 23–25
Acquisitions librarianship. See also Collection management
accounting information for. See Fund accounting
decision support systems for, 47–53
Integrated Library Systems for, 76–77, 107, 130–131, 146
management information needs of, 5–7, 41, 44
hybrid report formats for, 126–148
medical journals example, 65–73
scope of, 1–2, 107
in secondary education setting, 30, 37–38, 44–45
vendor’s relationship with, 104–107
Ad hoc report writing, 126, 136, 147
Advertisements, in online databases, 25
AGRI-COLA, faculty assessment of, 36–37
ALCTS, See Association for Library Collections and Technical Services
Allied health, Brandon/Hill titles report of, 15
Allocation, in fund accounting, 80–82, 85, 143
Alphabetical titles list, for serials, 12
American Library Association (ALA)
public library data from, 41, 131–132
serials titles and, 11, 12f
American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), 26, 32
AMIGOS Collection Analysis, 52
ANSI standards, for library statistics, 46
Applied Science and Technology Index, faculty assessment of, 35, 40
Approval plans, for book selection
categories of, 106
evaluation of, 57–60
system management reports for, 60–64
Archive lists, storage options for, 137
Art Abstracts, faculty assessment of, 35, 40
ArticleFirst, faculty ass...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. About the Editor
  7. Acquiring Online Management Reports: An Editorial Introduction
  8. Serials Management Information for the 21st Century
  9. Electronic Resources: Exactly, What Is Online?
  10. Watch Out and Listen: Faculty Assess Electronic Resources
  11. Library Management Statistics from an Integrated Library System (ILS)
  12. Decision Support Systems and Collection Management
  13. Evaluating Approval Plans and Other Methods of Book Selection Through System Management Reports
  14. Integrating Vendor Supplied Management Reports for Serials Evaluation: The Medical College of Wisconsin Experience
  15. Instant Access to Fund Accounting Information: Advice for Selectors and Acquisitions Librarians
  16. Cooperative Collection Development in PORTALS
  17. Online Management Reports: A Book Vendor’s Perspective
  18. Claiming in the Automated Environment
  19. Evolution of the INNOPAC: Managing Resources with Statistics and Reports
  20. Coordinating Report Functions from Online Systems: A Philosophic Essay
  21. Index