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Aims to provide a medium for those involved in acquisitions work to exchange information and ideas. Includes archive and mailing list information.
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The JISC currently funds a number of data centres, data services, and projects, using different delivery modes, which contribute to the electronic content available to the UK higher education community. This document describes the parameters of the distributed national electronic resource, sets out policies for its development, and identifies areas for collaboration with data providers and data users outwith the HE sector.
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Part of the Internet Library for Librarians project. Includes review services, publishers' catalogues, serials subscription and exchange services, journals and mailing lists, collection development policies and information about acquisitions of foreign materials.
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Provides information about the acquisitions department and links to Internet resources UNC-Chapel Hill have found to be most useful to acquisitions work. These include publishing and reference resources as well as publishers and library catalogues.
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Offers an insight to the value of comic books in terms of improving reading skills, encouraging visual learning, and developing creativity. A selection of short articles discuss comic books within the library environment, considering collection development issues, publishers, genres, and formats.
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Links to important, distracting and interesting new resources of relevance to collection development and library acquisitions.
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An informal list open to members of the serials community to discuss matters relating to serials and journals including selection, pricing, finance, supply, collection management, relegation, automation, cataloguing, binding, preservation, electronic developments, news, jobs, meetings and training.
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Compilation of electronic discussion lists, newsgroups and electronic serials of interest to library professionals and staff, organised by subject and title.
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Acquisitions web server which aims to help acquisitions librarians make use of the Internet. Contains web news, collection development tools, publishers and vendors information, links to library associations and organisations, newsletters, journals, and other library and information science resources. AcqWeb is the sister publication of ACQNET.
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This list is aimed at anyone with an interest in acquisitions to discuss policies, selection, supply, bookfunds, EDI, NBA and tendering. The list is not concerned with serials.
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