From the monthly archives: November 2010
MathSciNet, an electronic database of reviews, abstracts and bibliographic information for much of the mathematical sciences literature, now includes the following enhancements and features:
Improved display of mathematics using MathJax, an open source JavaScript display engine for mathematics that works in all modern browsers Direct links to books, book chapters, and series using DOIs [...]
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v.22 #5 November 2010 © Katina Strauch
ISSUES, NEWS, & GOINGS ON
Rumors – p. 1
From Your Editor – p. 6
Letters to the Editor – p. 6
Deadlines – p. 6
FEATURES
Managing Our Collections in a Digital Age
Guest Editor, Roger Schonfeld
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Read More... →by Roger C. Schonfeld (Manager of Research, Ithaka S+R; Phone: 212-500-2338) roger.schonfeld@ithaka.org
This issue focuses on print collections management in a digital age. While numerous libraries are rethinking print collections as a result of their digital availability, actions at individual libraries aggregate into broad questions about the future need for access [...]
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by Emily Stambaugh (Shared Print Manager, California Digital Library, WEST Assistant Project Manager) emily.stambaugh@ucop.edu
Research libraries have inherited a legacy of print duplication; duplication that made sense in its time to ensure institutional competitiveness. But a network-wide shortage of storage space requires us to reduce the physical footprint of [...]
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by Frances Boyle (UKRR Manager) f.boyle@imperial.ac.uk
Introduction
The Creature which is UKRR
The UK Research Reserve (UKRR) is a coordinated, collaborative, systematic approach to collection management for low use print research journals. The scheme, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE),1 is a partnership [...]
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by Bob Kieft (College Librarian, Occidental College) kieft@oxy.edu
Introduction
Not so long ago, yet in another age of librarianship, Evan Farber urged college librarians to avoid what he called “the university-library syndrome.”2 Farber’s diagnosis and prescription concern themselves with asserting the teaching mission of the college library, but [...]
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