Table of contents: issue45

Book Review: Cataloging and Organizing Digital Resources

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Sarah Higgins learns how to incorporate online resources into a library catalogue using AACR2 and MARC, but wonders why the wider issue of organising and describing a full range of digital resources is not addressed.

The title of this book will be bewitching for any library struggling with integrating the myriad of digital resources, to which they provide access, into its organisational and cataloguing workflows. However, the manual has a very narrow focus and gives an unscalable solution, which fails to address the problems faced by hybrid libraries, with a wide range of complex digital resources requiring lifecycle control.

Book Review: Managing Acquisitions in Library and Information Services

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Bruce Royan welcomes a new edition of the standard text in the acquisitions field.

Sixteen years ago, when Buying Books for Libraries [1] was first published, it rapidly became a set text in library schools. It also found its way onto the shelves of many practitioners, and I predict a similar destiny for this fashionably re-titled and newly revised second edition.

Book Review: Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 2004 (Volume 38)

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Michael Day reviews a recent volume of this key annual publication on information science and technology.

The Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (ARIST) is an important annual publication containing review articles on many topics of relevance to library and information science, published on behalf of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIST). Since volume 36, the editor of ARIST has been Professor Blaise Cronin of Indiana University, Bloomington.

The twelve chapters in volume 38 are divided into three sections, dealing with theory, technology, and policy.