Conference Session 113

Developing collections in hard financial times: proactive collaboration, balancing e-resources vs. print, low-cost options and alternative resources, fee resources…

Acquisition and Collection Development Section

Congress track 5: Ideas, innovations, anticipating the new.

15 August 2011 16:00 - 18:00 | Room: 209

• Shared archiving as a chance to acquire fresh money for collection development
  Translations: [Deutsch]
  BRIGITTE KROMP (Central Library for Physics, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria) and WOLFGANG MAYER (Library's Electronic Resource Management, Vienna University, Vienna, Austria)
• Overcoming the barriers to accessing research collections in the developing world: an international collaborative approach
  PETER BURNETT (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications (INASP), Oxford, United Kingdom)
• Collection development in public libraries section from National Library and Libraries Services Autonomous Institute, Venezuela, according to changes of the Institute's budget between 2004 and 2011
  CESAR G. ALVARADO LOPEZ (Biblioteca Pública Metropolitana de Caracas "Simón Rodríguez", Instituto Autónomo Biblioteca nacional y de Servicios de Bibliotecas, Caracas, Venezuela)
• Skating on thin ice: the resilience of the Zimbabwean University Libraries during the decade 2000 to 2010
  SHEILA NOMATHEMBA NDLOVU (Lupane State University, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)
• National Electronic Information Consortium as the leader of cooperative acquisition of e-resources in Russia
  Translations: [Français] [Русский]
  ALEXANDER KOUZNETZOV (National Electronic Information Consortium, Moscow, Russia), NATALIA LITVINOVA (Russian State Library, Moscow, Russia) and IRINA RAZUMOVA (National Electronic Information Consortium, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
• Even cowgirls get the blues: how research libraries are coping with reductions in their collections budgets
  KIM ARMSTRONG (Centre for Library Initiatives, Committee on Institutional Cooperartion, Champaigne, IL, USA) and JAY STARRATT (Washington State University, Washington D.C., USA)