Print vs. Digital

The Future of Coexistence

Sul H. Lee

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9781138995284
• eBook ISBN: 9781135023652
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Information Management
• Index: Business

Libraries are currently confronted by the challenges of managing increasing amounts of electronic information. Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence presents the expert perspectives of eight of America's leading library administrators on ways to effectively manage digital flow and offers strategies to provide a level of coexistence between digital and print information. This excellent overview explores how to best balance print and electronic resources, and explores important issues such as the selection of electronic resources, improving access to digital information for a larger user base, and effective management of a library's fiscal and personnel resources.

Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence discusses the various challenges libraries now face from the massive influx of digital resources, including the ways that information-seeking behaviors have changed, the search for synergies between print and digital, economics of news preservation, and whether or not the end of print journals is at hand. New ideas and technological advances are explored, including the diverse ways these improvements will impact the future. This well-referenced resource includes useful tables, figures, and photographs.

Topics in Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence include:

• cooperative collection development
• balance of print and electronic resources
• evolvement of digital resources in libraries
• change in research libraries
• factors influencing the selection of electronic resources
• disseminating information about scholarly collections
• impact of digital resources on research behavior and techniques
• design of digital libraries
• JSTOR
• effects of digital information on reference collections
• transition of print journals to digital formats

Print vs. Digital: The Future of Coexistence is a thought provoking, insightful resource on the future of libraries, invaluable for acquisitions, reference, and collection development librarians; and senior and mid-level administrators such as deans, directors, and department heads for public, special, and academic libraries.

Index

Page numbers followed by findicate figures; those marked with t indicate tables.

ABC-CLIO, 63

Accessibility Institute, 7

Acock Associates, 36

Age of Empires, Civilization, or Rome: Total War, 23

AGORA, 124

American Antiquarian Society, 85

American Civil War, 19

American Library Association Mid-Winter meeting, 6

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 76

AnthroSource for Anthropology, 63

Architecture Library, 28, 30f

Archiving, in JSTOR, 64–67, 65f, 66f

Area Studies Microform Projects, 103

Article Express, 45

Association of Research Libraries, 40

Atkinson, R., 110, 111

Author(s), end of print journals views of, 123–126

Bacon, F., 88

Baidu, 84

Behavior(s), information-seeking, evolving, impact on research libraries, case study of, 3–16. See also Information-seeking behaviors, evolving, impact on research libraries, case study of

Behavioral issues, in case study of evolving information-seeking behaviors impact on research libraries, 14–16

Bennet, S., 34, 45–46

Benson, N.L., 5

Berkeley University, 102

Billings, H., 5

Blooker Prize, 20

“Blooks, ” 20

Book(s), promoting of, through digital, visual displays, 23–24

Bowen, W.G., 57, 58

Bradlee, B., 80

Branin, J.J., 27

British Library, 81

Brookings Institution, 83

Buckland, M.K., 87

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, 63

Carlton, D., 5

Carnegie, 84

Caste mentalities, in cooperative conundrum in digital age, 115–117

Center for Research Libraries, 85, 103, 117

Cheshire system interface, 97, 98f Child, J., 20

Civil War, 80

CLIR. See Commission on Library and Information Resources (CLIR)

Collection(s)

models for, in cooperative conundrum in digital age, 106–108

reference, digital difference in, 87–100. See also Reference collections, digital difference in

in research libraries, new practices in, 39–45, 4lf, 43f, 44f

Columbia University Center for New Me...

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• ABOUT THE EDITOR
• Dedication
• Introduction
• The Impact of Evolving Information-Seeking Behaviors Upon Research Libraries: A Case Study
• Beyond Coexistence: Finding Synergies Between Print Content and Digital Information
• Shaping Our Space: Envisioning the New Research Library
• JSTOR: Past, Present, and Future
• The Library and the Newsstand: Thoughts on the Economics of News Preservation
• The Digital Difference in Reference Collections
• The Cooperative Conundrum in the Digital Age
• The End of Print Journals: (In)Frequently Asked Questions
• Index