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This volume focuses on information services in a rapidly changing electronic environment. The book is divided into five sections: Part 1: The evolution of information services; Part 2: Information services in different types of libraries; Part 3: The delivery of information services; Part 4: Information literacy-a key service; and Part 5 : The measurement of information services. These substantive chapters comprise a mix of research-based, practice-based and reflective scholarly studies of worldwide application and interest.

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The Yearbook is intended as essential reading for librarians and other information professionals; it is based on research, practice, and reflection. As challenging scholarly reading for practitioners, it should be included in every academic library. Collection Building ...this Yearbook displays the unity of purpose, consistency and broad, complementary coverage which one hopes for in a Yearbook...In short, Library Association Publishings's new International Yearbook belongs in every serious professional collection. Australian Academic and Research Libraries ... International Yearbook... offers sufficient food for thought and stimulation to address the problematic issues that may arise in the future...well researched...excellently edited...highly recommended for anybody interested in keeping up with developments in the field of collection management. The Electronic Library This is an excellent book, full of well-researched, scholarly chapters written by international leaders in the field of collection management...If you are looking for a well-rounded volume that provides a good survey of the issues around which collection management defines itself, then this is the source for you...Bravo to this inaugural compilation! Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services

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G.E. Gorman is Professor of Library and Information Management at the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. He has published extensively in the field of library and information work and he is a regular contributor to scholarly and professional journals.

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