SPEC Kit 324: Collecting Global Resources (September 2011)
This SPEC Kit explores the trends, practices, and challenges in collecting global resources in North American research libraries at a time of political and economic change, on the one hand, and of significant change in scholarly communication and collection management strategies, on the other. It covers global resources collections (including an overview of expenditures, collecting trends, sources of funding, and acquisition strategies), staff and organizational structure, preservation strategies, and discovery, public service, and outreach.
The survey results clearly demonstrate that support for global resources in North American research libraries is strong and predicted to remain so in the foreseeable future. Budget and space challenges, as well as increasing electronic access to resources with resulting changes in research habits of students and faculty, will create new and different patterns in collection growth. In response, many ARL libraries either already have or are in the process of creating organizational structures that facilitate intense outreach activities, in-depth reference, and collaborative collection development.
This SPEC Kit includes documentation from respondents that describes print and digital global collections, collection development policies, examples of research guides, and organization charts.
Cheun, Wookjin, Marion Frank-Wilson, Luis A. González, Akram Khabibullaev, Wen-Ling Liu, Andrea Singer, and Noa Wahrman. Collecting Global Resources. SPEC Kit 324. Washington, DC: Association of Research Libraries, September 2011.
Table of Contents
SPEC Kit 324: Collecting Global Resources (September 2011)
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Collecting Global Resources frontmatter
33
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Survey Results
99
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Representative Documents
8383
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Collection Descriptions
8585
- University of British Columbia 8686
- University of California, San Diego 8787
- Columbia University 8989
- University of Florida 9393
- George Washington University 9595
- University of Hawaii 9696
- Indiana University Bloomington 9797
- University of Iowa 100100
- University of Kansas 101101
- Northwestern University 102102
- Ohio University 104104
- University of Texas at Austin 105105
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Collection Development Policies
107107
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Research Guides
127127
- Duke University 128128
- University of Florida 129129
- George Washington University 130130
- Indiana University Bloomington 131131
- University of Kansas 132132
- University of Massachusetts, Amherst 137137
- University of New Mexico 139139
- Temple University 140140
- University of Washington 142142
- Washington University in Saint Louis 144144
- Yale University 146146
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Digital Collections
149149
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Organization Charts
163163
- University of California, Los Angeles 164164
- Duke University 165165
- University of Florida 166166
- University of Hawaii at Manoa 167167
- Indiana University Bloomington 169169
- Michigan State University 170170
- University of Texas at Austin 171171
- University of Washington 172172
- University of Waterloo 173173
- Yale University 174174
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Collection Descriptions
8585
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Selected Resources
175175

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SPEC Kit 324: Collecting Global Resources (September 2011)