Love's Labour's Lost: The Failure of Traditional Selection Practice in the Acquisition of Humanities Electronic Texts.

From: Library Trends | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: CASE, BEAU DAVID | Copyright information

ABSTRACT

THE LIBRARY LITERATURE FROM THE LATE nineteenth century to the present offers numerous rational well-intentioned guides to the selection of materials. Yet, collection development policies and lists of selection criteria are inadequate for humanities electronic texts. Libraries, humanities disciplines, and electronic texts are too complex for any rigid approach to acquisition. In order to meet goals and satisfy users, libraries must abandon traditional practices ...

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