Developing and Managing Electronic Collections: The Essentials

PEGGY JOHNSON is a frequent speaker and trainer on collection development and management. She has published several books, including ALA Editions’ bestselling Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, and numerous journal articles. She edited the peer-reviewed journal Library Resources and Technical Services for more than nine years, ending her term in December 2012, and continues to edit Technicalities: Information Forum for the Technical Services Professional. Prior to retiring from the University of Minnesota Libraries, she served as associate university librarian. Peggy is past president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services and received the ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. She has a Masters from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School and a Master’s of Management and Administration from Metropolitan State University.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Johnson, Peggy, 1948-

Developing and managing electronic collections : the essentials / Peggy Johnson.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-8389-1190-7 (alk. paper)

1. Libraries—Special collections—Electronic information resources.

2. Electronic information resources—Management. 3. Libraries and electronic publishing—United States. I. Title.

Z692.C65J64 2013

025.2'84—dc23 2013005038