Moving Library Collections: A Management Handbook

Informationen zum Autor Elizabeth C. Habich is administrative operations manager at the Northeastern University Libraries in Boston, MA. Klappentext The new edition of the guide to the complex options, techniques, and details needed to successfully carry out a library collection move. Published over a decade ago, the first edition of Moving Library Collections was hailed as invaluable and long overdue by, among others, Booklist , Library Talk , and College and Research Libraries . Now, this must-have resource returns in a fully updated new edition, to help today's librarians think through the issues, explore the options, and avoid the pitfalls of orchestrating a library move.Again based on data from over 100 library moves, Moving Library Collections: A Management Handbook, Second Edition is written from the perspective of today's library, with added guidance for dealing with larger holdings of electronic resources, as well as space limitations in storage and on the shelves. There is also updated coverage of average book widths, using project management software, and moving archival materials, as well as special guidelines for small libraries. Zusammenfassung The new edition of the guide to the complex options! techniques! and details needed to successfully carry out a library collection move.

Product details

• Authors: Elizabeth Habich, Elizabeth C Habich, Elizabeth Chamberlain Habich, Habich Elizabeth Chamberlain
• Publisher: External catalogues US
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9781591586708
• ISBN: 978-1-59158-670-8
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 234 mm x 32 mm
• Series: Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection; Libraries Unlimited Library Ma; Libraries Unlimited Library Ma; Libraries Unlimited Library Management Collection
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reference, Library & Information Sciences, Library and information sciences / Museology