Library/Vendor Relationships

Sam Brooks, David H. Carlson

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317954507
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

A view of the mutual dependence between libraries and vendors

As technology advances, libraries are forced to reach beyond their own resources to find effective ways to maintain accuracy and superior service levels. Vendors provide databases and integrated library systems that perform those functions for profit. Library/Vendor Relationships examines the increasing cooperation in which libraries find they must participate in, and vice versa, with the vendors that provide system infrastructure and software. Expert contributors provide insights from all sides of this unique collaboration, offering cogent perspectives on the give and take process that every librarian, publisher, and database provider/producer can use.

The symbiosis between libraries and vendors of databases relies heavily upon open communication to achieve each one's beneficial results. Library/Vendor Relationships explores this partnership between profit and nonprofit entities in detail, focusing on issues of crucial importance for both sides. A variety of diverse types of libraries and vendors give voice to the multitude of issues facing them. Several charts, graphs, and other helpful visuals are included.

Topics in Library/Vendor Relationships include:

• options for preventing systematic downloading of material
  
• benefits and challenges of delivering products on multiple platformsusing the American Psychological Association's experiences as a case study
  
• book vendors' efforts to help libraries become more efficient
  
• comprehensive online support services to help increase interaction between libraries and academic publishers
  
• Anatolian University Libraries Consortium's effective relationship with vendors
  
• publisher and vendor use of library advisory boards to provide needed feedback
  
• a review of the database marketplace
  
• fostering a good relationship between library and vendor
  
• the future of government libraries in an increasingly technological age
  
• collaboration in standards development
  
• integrated ecommerce
  
• the relationship between OCLC and member institutions
  
• libraries' position between commerce and science
  
• vendor/community college library relationships
  
• e-mail discussion lists
  
• and more!
  
  

Library/Vendor Relationships is stimulating, insightful reading for academic librarians, government librarians, public librarians, deans, directors, reference librarians, publishers, and database providers.

Index

Academic libraries, 58-60. See also Libraries

Academic publishers

acquisitions and, 61-62

databases and, 63-64

focus groups and, 59-60

partnerships and, 62-63

peer review communities and, 67

serving needs of libraries and, 58-67

Acquisitions, academic publishers and, 61-62

ACS. See American Chemical Society (ACS)

Advisory boards, 3

composition of, 90-91

in information industry, 88-90

librarians and, 9,91-92

overview of, 86-88

questions asked of publishers and vendors for, 93

value of, 90-92

vendors and, 91

Aggregators, 7

Alford, Larry, 165

American Chemical Society (ACS), 13,19

American Institute of Physics (AIP), 13-14

American Psychological Association (APA), 191-192

about, 26-27

books published by, 29

databases of, 29-33

development of new electronic products and, 39-41

feedback and, 39-41

primary journals of, 27-29

training and support for products by, 37-38

trends for products of, 38-39

vendors and, 33-37

benefits of working with, 33-34

communication issues, 36-37

complications in working with, 34

licensing and reporting issues and, 34-35

matching products with interface, 35-36

Anatolian University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS), 70

background of, 70-71

experiences with vendors and, 74-76

growth of, 71-73

mode of operation of, 73-74

pricing negotiations and, 76-80

reflections on experiences of, 80-81

trialing of databases by, 74

Anderson, Rick, 183

Announcement lists, 207

APA. See American Psychological Association (APA)

Application of integrated systems, timeline for, 6-7

Archived lists, 210

Association of American Publishers (AAP), 129

Association of Research Libraries (ARL), 129

Atkinson, Hugh, 160

Authorized users, 13

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: The Importance of Open Communication Between Libraries and Vendors
• Introduction: Forging Lasting Symbiotic Relationships Between Libraries and Vendors
• Managing the Unmanageable: Systematic Downloading of Electronic Resources by Library Users
• Library/Vendor Relations: The APA Experience
• Managing Customer Relationships: A Book Vendor Point-of-View
• Library/Vendor Relations: An Academic Publisher's Perspective
• ANKOS and Its Dealings with Vendors
• Library Advisory Boards: A Survey of Current Practice Among Selected Publishers and Vendors
• Library/Vendor Relations from a Public Library Perspective
• Government Libraries: Administering Change in an Uncertain Future
• Library-Vendor Relations in the World of Information Standards: A View of a Partnership That Improves Research, Information Access, and Revenue Opportunities
• Integrated Ecommerce in the Library: A Software Development Partnership Between Innovative Interfaces and the Westerville Public Library, Ohio
• The OCLC Members Council: A Communication and Governance Forum for the Global Library Collaborative
• Business, Science, and the Common Good
• Community College Library/Vendor Relations: You Can't Always Get What You Want . . . or Can You?
• Electronic Discussion Lists
• Index