collaborative collection development features in collection manager miriam de la rochefordiere 4 th...
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Collaborative Collection Development features in
Collection Manager
Miriam de La Rochefordiere4th AMICAL ConferenceAUI, IfraneMay 2007
• The bookshop was first opened in Oxford (UK) in 1879
• Blackwell Book Services is a source of books and acquisition services for academic and research libraries
• Offices in the USA, the UK and AU
The company – brief introduction
The Services
• Approval Plan Service• Firm Order Service• Standing Order Service• ECommons (ebooks & Reference material
in e-format)• Collection Manager (database)• Out-of-Print Service• MaRC records + Table of Contents (TOC)• Library Dynamics: tools for visualizing,
developing, managing and interpreting library and library consortia collections
COLLECTION MANAGER
Main Menu
Blackwell Thesaurus
New titles on Collection Manager (ex. Urbanism)
Title detail
TOC – partial view
Non-subject parameters
E-book preview
Ebook content
Enotes – new title announcements services
Series Manager - Standing Orders management
Collaborative Collection Development
Blackwell has developed features in Collection Manager and in its Approval system to respond to group/consortium requirements for collaboration, specifically:
• Subject profiling• Collection Manager
– Combined view of activity for each library– Other tools for collaboration
• Reporting
Reports
Types of reports:• Coverage and gaps with Consortium sales
and returns
• Coverage and gaps in Consortium approval activity
• Non-Subject descriptor analysis showing coverage and gaps in Consortium sales
• Group Cost Estimates, Order Management reports, Duplication Analysis…and more.
