Principles of Selection for Electronic Resources

THE AVAILABILITY IN ELECTRONIC FORMAT OF scholarly and scientific literatures and other forms of information relevant to the needs of library users has profoundly altered the challenges faced by collection managers. Although the traditional goals of achieving quality, relevance, and balance at a fair price still animate most collection-development efforts,judgments about these attributes of resources have become more ambiguous. The traditional standards have also beenjoined by new and highly important criteria which include the definition of the allowable user group and the purposes forwhich use will be permitted, multi-faceted concerns about the functionality of resources, and concerns about the availability of permanent archives. Drawing heavily on the ideas of the multi-library consortia, which have grown up partly in response to the advent of electronic resources, librarians have devised new criteria and means of assessing resources against them so that cost-effective acquisitions...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2000
• Where: LIBT
• Authors: Paul Metz
• Keywords: Allowable User Group, ELECTRONIC FORMAT, LIBT 2000, Resources