References to Help You in Building a Digital Collection

Bosch, Stephen, Patricia A. Promis and Chris Sugnet. 2005. Guide to Licensing and Acquiring Electronic Information. Scarecrow Press.

Breeding, Marshall. 2003. Building a digital library of television news. Library Technology Guides. (An interesting hands on digital collection guide including entire process of building collection)

Kovacs, Diane. 2000. Building Electronic Library Collections. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.

Lee, Stuart D. 2002. Electronic Collection Development: A Practical Guide. Neal-Schuman Publishers: New York.

McGinnis, Suzan D, editor. 2000. Electronic Collection Management. Hawthorne Information Press.

Su, Di, editor. Collection Development: Issues in the Online Environment. . Hawthorne Information Press: New York.

On-line Resources

Building the Digital Collection. Library of Congress. http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwdigit.html

The Cedars Guide to Digital Collection Management. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/collmanagement/guidetocolman.pdf

Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. First Monday, online journal. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_5/cole/index.html

Managing your digital collection and linking it on OCLC. http://www.oclc.org/services/collection/default.htm


2 Responses to “digital collections reference guide”


  1. 1 docmartens
    October 6, 2008 at 3:41 am

    Time to alphabetize this, I think!

  2. 2 wendy
    October 6, 2008 at 11:18 am

    We’ll that’s pretty funny actually, I started laughing. I have paid no attention lately to the reference guide. Considereing my last two posts, I could use a little organization.


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