| Details | | Publication Date: | 1998-07-15 |
| Size | | Length: | 216 pages | | Height: | 10.5 in | | Width: | 7.5 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 25.6 oz |
Industry Reviews
Contracting out various services now stands as a major issue for all libraries. Authors B?naud and Bordeianu (heads of cataloging and serials cataloging, respectively, University of New Mexico Library) thoroughly cover outsourcing as applied in academic libraries. They first examine outsourcing from both business and library perspectives, including economic and political arguments for and against the practice. Next appears the history and basic questions of outsourcing in academic libraries. The authors then present survey results of Association of Research Library (ARL) and non-ARL institutions on current practices. They next move to the major points regarding outsourcing of collection development, acquisitions, serials, cataloging, retrospective conversion, authority control, preservation, public services, and systems. This well-written book complements the nuts-and-bolts approach of Arnold Hirshon and Barbara Winter's Outsourcing Library Technical Services: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (Professional Media, LJ 1/97) and Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations (Professional Media, LJ 1/98). It will not settle the debate but deserves to be read by all academic librarians considering outsourcing or interested in this topic. Stephen L. Hupp, Swedenborg Memorial Lib., Urbana Univ., OH
Leuchtenburg
Contracting out various services now stands as a major issue for all libraries. Authors B‚naud and Bordeianu (heads of cataloging and serials cataloging, respectively, University of New Mexico Library) thoroughly cover outsourcing as applied in academic libraries. They first examine outsourcing from both business and library perspectives, including economic and political arguments for and against the practice. Next appears the history and basic questions of outsourcing in academic libraries. The authors then present survey results of Association of Research Library (ARL) and non-ARL institutions on current practices. They next move to the major points regarding outsourcing of collection development, acquisitions, serials, cataloging, retrospective conversion, authority control, preservation, public services, and systems. This well-written book complements the nuts-and-bolts approach of Arnold Hirshon and Barbara Winter's Outsourcing Library Technical Services: A How-To-Do-It Manual for Librarians (Professional Media, LJ 1/97) and Outsourcing Library Technical Services Operations (Professional Media, LJ 1/98). It will not settle the debate but deserves to be read by all academic librarians considering outsourcing or interested in this topic. Stephen L. Hupp, Swedenborg Memorial Lib., Urbana Univ., OH
Library Journal (11/01/1998)
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