Book Reviews : Jenkins, Clare and Morley, Mary, eds Collection management implications of the British Library review of acquisition and retention policies 1991, London: National Acquisitions Group, £21.50

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-58
Author(s):  
Liz Chapman
Keyword(s):  
Collection Management ◽  
British Library ◽  
Management Implications ◽  
Retention Policies

Bibliographic Control for Twenty-First-Century Collection Management and Resource Discovery: Current Approaches in the British Library

2005 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Brazier ◽  
Robina Clayphan
Keyword(s):  
Resource Discovery ◽  
First Century ◽  
Collection Management ◽  
British Library ◽  
Personal View ◽  
Digital Collections ◽  
User Expectations ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Future Technologies ◽  
Economic Constraints

At the beginning of the twenty-first century the bibliographic standards landscape is undergoing considerable development. Against a background of changing user expectations, technical possibilities and economic constraints, the British Library is reviewing its approach to traditional collection management and bibliographic standards. The lack of established standards for management of digital collections is leading to a period of experimentation in which research into future technologies sits alongside pragmatic solutions to deal with the realities of the transitional ‘hybrid library’. The authors present a personal view of current initiatives and developments in the British Library, including new technological opportunities and systems developments, digitization and digital object management, metadata schemas and application profiles. They also consider measures that are in place to handle the transition to a richer and more complex resource discovery future that is still evolving across the sector.

scholarly journals Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 19 (63) ◽  
pp. 34-41
Author(s):  
Ian Winkworth ◽  
Geoffrey Smith ◽  
Cliff McKnight ◽  
David Haynes ◽  
Steve Morgan
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Records Management ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
Electronic Journals ◽  
European Economic ◽  
Business Information ◽  
New Models ◽  
Information Research ◽  
Research Service

Sumsion, John, Berridge, Pamela and Creaser, Claire. LISU Annual library statistics 1994 Martin, Murray S (Editor). Library finance: new needs, new models. Pullinger, David. The Super Journal Project: electronic journals on Super JANET. Penn, I.A., Pennix, G and Coulson, J. Records management handbook. British Library. Business Information Research Service. Sources of European economic and business information. Basch, Reva (Editor). Electronic information delivery: ensuring quality and value. Hamilton, Feona: Current awareness current techniques.

Cooperation between Legal Deposit Libraries in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. D. McGowan
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Project ◽  
British Library ◽  
Republic Of Ireland ◽  
Trinity College Dublin ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Republic ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The University ◽  
National Libraries ◽  
Retention Policies

Five libraries in the UK and the Republic of Ireland - the National Libraries of Scotland and Wales, the university libraries of Oxford and Cambridge, and Trinity College Dublin Library - can claim material from publishers through the Copyright Libraries' Agency, while deposit with The British Library, which maintains the Legal Deposit Office, is obligatory. In spite of problems caused by diverse sources of funding, there is much incentive and pressure to cooperate, and efforts have been made, particularly since 1988, to coordinate the activities of all six libraries. The Mellon Microfilming Project aims to film important scholarly collections in Britain and Ireland to agreed archival standards, and to improve access to the Register of Preservation Microfilms. A Working Group on Legal Deposit identified as areas for fruitful collaboration the coordination of acquisition of serials and of some types of monograph, and retention policies; some savings have already been made. A third exercise, a pilot project for shared cataloguing, aimed to maximize the utility to all libraries of the BL's National Bibliographic Service and minimize costs in the participating libraries; the Shared Cataloguing Programme itself started in September 1993.

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