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Lee, Sul Hi was born on July 13, 1936 in Taegu, Republic of Korea. Son of Sang Moo and Won Nim Lee.
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One of the most challenging aspects of librarians’responsibilities is obtaining the resources and materials desired by their library users. Access, Ownership, and Resource Sharing brings together chapters by librarians and members of related businesses to identify the issues involved and clarify ideas associated with this important topic. Recent history has seen increased debate about the options available to librarians as they seek to fill the diverse needs of today's library user. This book provides needed guidance for today and stimulates further consideration and discussion of the issues presented. Chapters in Access, Ownership, and Resource Sharing include: • an overview of the issues involved in resource sharing, with suggested strategies for resource sharing and several highlighted pilot projects • advantages and barriers of access to materials versus ownership •  a description of redesigning library collections to meet new conditions and opportunities, with special focus on a Louisiana State University project to identify necessary serial titles •  a discussion of collection access in which document delivery plays an important role in library programs and the ramifications of this strategy on the vendor/document delivery service • a commentary on a mid-sized library's experiences, referring to literature on college libraries to compare access, ownership, and resource sharing among library settings • a historical review of resource sharing and a status report on some current technology •  the state of academic and research library collections in North America in light of increasing output by publishers • a view of how technology is affecting publisher/library/vendor relations and a discussion using recent management writings of library organization in a period of rapid change The contributing authors present a useful and informative look at the current status of information provision and some of the challenges the subject presents. Librarians and others in the field will find in Access, Ownership, and Resource Sharing many tips and strategies to help guide them successfully into the future.
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Have the high costs of information and reductions in library budgets put you in a dilemma? Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a key resource in beginning the task of re-thinking traditional methods of collection development and maintenance. The contributing authors to this volume provide you with thought-provoking chapters which touch on library, business, and societal issues as related to your work as a library administrator. They enable you to take a more economical approach to developing and maintaining a great collection--with a smaller budget. Specific areas covered by the contributors include: • ideas for the director facing an acquisitions dilemma • a unique formula for maintaining book collections • new strategies for reevaluating acquisitions budgeting • allocating acquisitions budgets with flexibility • new practices in acquisitions budgeting based on the Ohio State University libraries’indexing system • access vs. ownership in science collection development • a project outline to gather circulation information for use in collection development • what services a subscription vendor can offer in the collection assessment and evaluation process Library professionals throughout the country need to learn how to survive in a world of rising information costs and reductions in library budgets. Declining Acquisitions Budgets is a step in the right direction, with insightful strategies and ideas to help readers negotiate their way through these troublesome times.
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An essential volume for all library professionals responsible for acquisitions. Here is a thorough book that explores pricing from the publisher's, wholesaler's, and library's perspective. Experts reveal insightful information on vendors, approvals, acquisition costs, overseas monographic pricing, and much more.
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The focus of Library Material Costs and Access to Information is on the abilities and strategies of libraries to provide access to information in an environment of expanding costs and limited funding. Discussions cover such topics as new technological developments that assist in accessing information, cost analysis of monographs and serials, and library cooperation. This new volume will be a catalyst to promote further discussion and investigation of the issues raised and will be of great help to library administrators and managers. The chapters of this thought-provoking book represent a collection of papers that were given at the fourth annual conference of the University of Oklahoma Libraries.
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This invaluable new book contains timely information about the assessment of academic library collections and the relationship of collection assessment to acquisition budgets. The rising cost of information significantly influences academic libraries’abilities to acquire the necessary materials for students and faculty, and public libraries’abilities to acquire material for their clientele. Collection Assessment and Acquisitions Budgets examines different aspects of the relationship between the assessment of academic library collections and the management of library acquisition budgets. Librarians, researchers, and representatives from major library vendors present studies and opinions on collection assessment and acquisition budgets. Collection Assessment and Acquisitions Budgets explores the issues and tools related to collection assessment and also presents insight into the relationships between libraries and vendors. Some of the topics covered by this volume include: • current factors influencing libraries’abilities to acquire information • an examination of trends affecting libraries and information vendors • use studies and collection development • management of acquisition funds • criteria to evaluate information vendors • relationships between libraries and vendors These informative chapters discuss current issues and present the latest research findings relating to collection assessment and acquisition budgets. Practicing librarians, students in the field, and librarians involved in administration and especially acquisitions and collection development will gain a better understanding of the complexities of collection and the factors affecting acquisitions budgets. Librarians will find practical information, including product reviews and opportunities to use automated tools in the assessment process, the benefits and problems of serial review projects, types of assistance vendors can provide libraries in the collection assessment process, the importance of collection assessment in the competition for funding, and ideas for the use of circulation data in the collection assessment process.
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What does the future hold for special collections in research libraries? Will special collections be an important feature in humanistic research or will technology make special collections irrelevant to research in the humanities? The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries explores the answers to these questions by examining special collections in British and American libraries and the changing trends in research and scholarship as they relate to special collections. This book examines the particular experience of a variety of special collections in British research libraries. By learning more about British experiences related to special collections, North American libraries will discover new ways to manage existing information resources in light of diminished funding. The topics cover this essential role of special collections in these areas: • the British perspective on issues relating to access and preservation of manuscripts, reproduction from originals, confidentiality, and the development of collections • a historical overview of changes in special collections • technology and special collections • balancing the collection and preservation of books and manuscripts with the acquisition of new materials in electronic format The Role and Future of Special Collections in Research Libraries brings together international perspectives on library programs to help librarians and library administrators understand the factors that influence special collections. With the help of this insightful book, librarians will learn how to develop and modify future programs and services to maintain excellent special collections.
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Librarians and vendors address library issues relating to the cost of acquiring information. In light of the financial crisis affecting nearly every library in the United States today, this insightful volume will be useful for library managers, technical services librarians, acquisitions librarians, and others interested in costs of library materials as they relate to library programs. The authoritative contributors discuss the specific problems that can be attributed to rising costs and share with you their suggested strategies for coping with the continuing crises caused by runaway prices for scholarly material. Among the topics addressed are managing library budgets, trends in serials acquisitions, book vendors’perspectives on acquisitions costs, examining technical services operations, using information in electronic formats, and using library networks.
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A collection of papers delivered at the 1997 conference, “Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage, and Delivery,” sponsored by the University of Oklahoma Libraries and the University of Oklahoma Foundation, this book explores evolving legal and economic models of licensing and pricing in the digital domain to help librarians incorporate the digitization of their collections into their libraries’strategic planning and policy setting frameworks. The contributing authors of Economics of Digital Information: Collection, Storage, and Delivery highlight key concepts and issues vital to a library's successful venture into the digital environment and help you understand why the transition from the printed page to the digital packet has been problematic for both creators of proprietary materials and users of those materials. The challenges to digitizing your collection are many, but as Economics of Digital Information illustrates, your efforts will be more than amply rewarded. Through helpful, guiding pages, this book prepares you for the challenges with its insightful discussions on: • getting the rhetoric of revolutionary change out of digitization • articulating a vision that will appeal to everyone in an organization • approaches to pricing electronic subscriptions • information provision, aggregators, and content providers • several emerging business models for digital commerce • how a whole new business of 'wholesaling’excess advertisement space has developed • the need for creating a distributed national or international digital research collection • guidelines for the collaborative acquisition of electronic information resources for the libraries of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) universities • financing digital storage • consortial approaches to license negotiations using the CIC as a model for library activity • the long-term storage of digital information You'll find Economics of Digital Information a comforting referral source for answering your questions as you immerse your library in the digital environment. The issues at stake will become clearer and your hesitancy will be dissolved as the book's practical, steady advice steers you through the steps of converting print-on-paper to digital formats.
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In times of tight materials budgets, steeply rising prices, and rapidly expanding information formats, library professionals will appreciate the valuable insights into acquisitions processes and management of material costs that are offered in this practical new book. Respected librarians and vendor representatives contributed to this volume--the published proceedings of a recent conference held at the University of Oklahoma. These experts examine approval plans, including a new approach for the publisher-based plan; the impact of inflation, including the increasing costs of titles in selected subject disciplines, causes for the costs, and ramifications for libraries and suppliers; and the process of materials budgeting from the collection of data to the justification of the budget. With increasing demands on librarians to find better budget management strategies and to develop more effective material acquisition processes, an environment has evolved in which librarians and book vendors are forced to examine their methods of acquiring and supplying materials to libraries. Acquisitions, Budgets, and Material Costs: Issues and Approaches provides librarians with readily applicable solutions to today’s acquisition problems.
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This book deals with the increasingly demanding problems of smaller acquisitions budgets. In recent years librarians have seen their finances diminishing while the prices of serials and monographs have risen steadily. Gone are the days when librarians and faculty had the state and/or private funding to be able to obtain all the books they needed to stay truly current. Now with major decisions having to be made concerning such things as automation, monograph collections, and subscription renewals, librarians are having to assume the role of business manager and dealer. Budgets for Acquisitions takes an in-depth look at the current situation and offers practical suggestions for working through the lean years. Strategies for getting the most for your money when dealing with vendors, selective collection development and maintenance, and making calculated decisions on how to divide the library's funds are just a few of the topics covered in this helpful new book.
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Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs on library budgets and management in this groundbreaking book. Library administrators will benefit from the practical advice in these perceptive chapters evolved from the 1991 University of Oklahoma Libraries and University of Oklahoma Foundation annual conference. Vendor Evaluation and Acquisition Budgets presents well-rounded views of the contemporary library budget situation from a variety of contributors, including practicing librarians, researchers, and book vendor representatives. Find applicable strategies for meeting the library budget and management challenges that rising costs will create in the 1990s. Chapters thoroughly cover the relationship between vendors and acquisitions budgets, including current trends affecting the information environment, libraries, and vendors; changes in library-dealer relationships resulting from economic and technological factors; and conditions of research and the dissemination of information from published and unpublished avenues. Library managers and administrators will find pragmatic advice to use in their own libraries, such as suggestions for dealing with service charges and discounts, studies of use patterns and cost-effectiveness of current collection development decisions, vendors’perspective on criteria used to evaluate book vendors, and a collection of 30 different strategies for stretching the acquisitions budget.
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Learn to allocate scarce library resources to meet learning, research, and service goals! How can you buy more books and journals with less money, while also installing the latest software and hardware, paying staff to train faculty and students in its use, offering the new round-the-clock information services users demand, and redefining the traditional collection-centered model of the library? It sounds impossible, but these are the conflicting imperatives every collections librarian faces at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Collection Development in the Electronic Environment offers solid, practical advice from the experience of other librarians who have met the same challenges, as well as useful information from vendors. Based on the conference Collection Development in the Electronic Environment: Shifting Priorities, this informative book suggests proven, effective strategies to deal with a librarian's most pressing problems. One case study shows how Iowa State University turned a cutback in journals into a new vision of what the library should be, involving a broad-based committee in the project. Other chapters discuss the specifics of budgeting for the unpredictable pricing of electronic materials, the increased demands on library staff, and the challenges of maintaining dual libraries--the electronic and the paper-based--both facing expensive issues of preservation. Collection Development in the Electronic Environment offers help and advice on the most complex and difficult issues librarians confront: • planning changes in library structure, function, and activities • building new models for collection development • identifying and fulfilling the needs of scholars in various disciplines • redefining staff roles and responsibilities • setting priorities in journal purchases • using electronic innovations to enhance collection development • dealing with copyright, fair use, and intellectual property in electronic formatsThrough case studies and firsthand experiences, Collection Development in the Electronic Environment provides you with the fresh ideas and proven strategies you need to guide your library into the electronic era.
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(papers presented at a conference in 1977 at Indiana State...)
papers presented at a conference in 1977 at Indiana State University to examine several important issues and trends which are effectin changes in the academic library organization
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Lee, Sul Hi was born on July 13, 1936 in Taegu, Republic of Korea. Son of Sang Moo and Won Nim Lee.
Bachelor of Arts, Bowling Green State University, 1961; Master of Arts, University Toledo, 1964; Master of Arts, University of Michigan, 1966.
Reference library, Toledo Public Library., 1961-1967; supervisor information analysts, Owens-Illinois, Inc., 1967-1968; director, Center for Library. and Information Sys., U. Toledo, 1968-1970; associate director library, Eastern Michigan U., Ypsilanti, 1970-1973; associate director libraries, U. Rochester, New York, 1973-1975; dean library services, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 1975-1978; dean university libraries, U. Oklahoma, Norman, since 1978; professor School Library. and Information Studies, U. Oklahoma, Norman, since 1988.
(Learn to allocate scarce library resources to meet learni...)
(Learn to allocate scarce library resources to meet learni...)
(What does the future hold for special collections in rese...)
(A collection of papers delivered at the 1997 conference, ...)
(Learn to better control costs for print and digital resou...)
(In times of tight materials budgets, steeply rising price...)
(Have the high costs of information and reductions in libr...)
(The focus of Library Material Costs and Access to Informa...)
(papers presented at a conference in 1977 at Indiana State...)
(This invaluable new book contains timely information abou...)
(One of the most challenging aspects of librarians’respons...)
(Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs...)
(Find insightful discussions on the impact of rising costs...)
(Librarians and vendors address library issues relating to...)
(This book deals with the increasingly demanding problems ...)
(An essential volume for all library professionals respons...)
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Member American Library Association (commission on accreditation 1981-1983, member county 1986-1990, county commission on committees 1988-1989), Association Research Libraries (chair committee management research libraries 1987-1989, board directors 1991-1994), Greater Midwestern Research Libraries Consortium (chair 1994-1995), University of Michigan School Library. Science Alumni Society (president 1983-1984, member editorial committee CAUSE 1995-1998).
Married Seol Bong Ryu, September 6, 1962. 1 child, Melissa Jemee.