For over a decade, some academic libraries have been purchasing, rather than borrowing, recently published books requested by their patrons through interlibrary

About 40 percent of the books academic libraries purchase in traditional ways never circulate and another 40 percent circulate fewer than three times. By contra

Academic E-Books: Publishers, Librarians, and Users provides readers with a view of the changing and emerging roles of electronic books in higher education. The

Health Sciences Collection Management for the Twenty-First Century is intended for those with any level of experience in health sciences collection management.

This book presents the history of library services that led to patron-driven acquisitions (PDA) in its current form. The author explains how PDA can be an impor