MORE THAN BOOKS: SELECTION AND ACQUISITION OF NON-BOOKS MATERIALS

SERIALS:

SERIALS:

ALA define serial as “a publication issued in successive parts, usually at regular intervals and as a rule, intended to be continued indefinitely. Serials include periodicals, annuals, magazines, newspapers, tabloids, proceedings, transactions of societies and memoirs.”

SERIALS: SAMPLES

•Proceedings – are the collection of academic papers that are published in the context of an academic conference. They are usually distributed as printed books after the conference has closed. Proceedings contain the papers of the researchers at the conference. They are the written record of the work that is presented to fellow researchers.

• Newsletter – is a regularly distributed publication

generally about one topic that is of interest to its

subscribers. Newsletters are published by clubs, churches, societies,

associations, and businesses, especially

companies. This provides information of interest to

their members, customers or employees.

SERIALS: SAMPLES

•Newspaper – is a written publication containing news, information and advertising, usually printed on low-cost paper called newsprint. It often features articles on political event, crime, business, art/entertainment, society and sports.

Popular magazines – are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles.

SERIALS: SAMPLES

• Referred materials are of high quality. The contents, articles and manuscripts included in these publications are reviewed and evaluated by experts. The purpose of this is to protect, maintain and raise the quality of scholarly materials published in serials.

• This must contain graph and charts• Author includes a list of cited sources in footnotes

and/or bibliography• Includes limited advertisements related to that

example : scholarly books or publication subject field

• Terminology used is specific to a subject discipline• Found in libraries and other academic, medical or

scientific settings• Articles approved by author’s peers of Editorial

Boards• Long articles 7 + pages.

JOURNAL

FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE DECISION IN SELECTING SERIALS

A decision to subscribe to or place a standing order for a serial is a much bigger decision than for a book.

1. A serial normally implies a long-term commitment, but under some vendors plans, the renewal is automatic without any further decision from the collection development staff.

2. Because of the long term commitment, the cost of the subscription become almost a fixed feature of the budget and each year takes an increasing proportion of the total materials budgets.

3. Another “fixed” cost is processing.

4. On-going cost to package each serial year after year.

5. Serials are not only taking up an ever-increasing percentage of the total funds available for collection development, they are also occupying a greater portion of the available storage space.

6. An important consideration in serials selection is how the patron gains access to the information each issue contains.

7. Serials have also tendency to increase the volume of photocopying activities. Photocopying is a legal or a copyright issue.

8. Finally, if a library is not starting a subscription with volume 1 Number 1, the librarian also make a decision regarding back issues or volumes.

FACTORS WHICH AFFECT THE DECISION IN SELECTING SERIALS