Self-Publishing and Collection Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries
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Self-Publishing and Collection Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries

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Self-Publishing and Collection Development : Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries

About this book

The current publishing environment has experienced a drastic change in the way content is created, delivered, and acquired, particularly for libraries. With the increasing importance of digital publishing, more than half the titles published in the United States are self-published. With this growth in self-published materials, librarians, publishers, and vendors have been forced to rethink channels of production, distribution, and access as it applies to the new content. Self-Publishing and Collection Development: Opportunities and Challenges for Libraries will address multiple aspects of how public and academic libraries can deal with the increase in self-published titles.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction to Self-Publishing and Collection Development
  6. 1. E-Book Self-Publishing and the Los Gatos Library: A Case Study
  7. 2. Supporting Self-Publishing and Local Authors: From Challenge to Opportunity
  8. 3. Do Large Academic Libraries Purchase Self-Published Books to Add to Their Collections?
  9. 4. Why Academic Libraries Should Consider Acquiring Self-Published Books
  10. 5. Digital Authoring, Electronic Scholarship, and Libraries: From Walled Garden to Wilderness
  11. 6. Book Vendors and Self-Publishing
  12. 7. Ingram and Independent Publishing
  13. 8. Review Sources of Interest to Librarians for Independently Published Books
  14. 9. Self-Publishing and Bibliographic Control
  15. 10. Self-Publishing and Libraries: The Slush Pile Is the Platform
  16. 11. An Indie Author in a Library World
  17. 12. The Romance of Self-Publishing
  18. 13. Alacrity House Publishing
  19. 14. Self-Publishing: A Bibliographic Essay
  20. Index