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Offers guidance on topics such as selection criteria for video; seven common business models; practical workflows, from selection and licensing to setting up access; video-specific licensing considerations, including hosting and access restrictions; using vendor analytic tools to improve discovery; and conducting a cost per use assessment.

Are you spending money wisely? If you're a technical services manager at an academic library, an administrator, or a dean, you're tasked with proving it. Incorporate assessment and analysis work into your library's existing workflow with the guidance of this new collection from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services.

The unique challenges of developing and managing a graphics novels collection have led the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services to craft this guide. Examining the ever-changing ways that graphic novels are created, packaged, marketed, and released, this resource gathers a range of voices from the field.

The goal of exposing cultural institutions' records to the web is as important as ever-but for the non-technically minded, linked data can feel like a confusing morass of abstraction, jargon, and acronyms. Get conversant in linked data with this basic introduction from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services.

Amidst uncertain times rife with challenges and potential catastrophes, prudently managing risk will bolster your library's resilience in the face of adversity. This succinct manual for trustees and administrators offers straightforward guidance for designing and implementing a library risk management program.

Library liaisons often have primary jobs that do not involve collection development, but their familiarity with collection practices makes all the difference in faculty relations. And time pressures mean that on-boarding needs to be as streamlined as possible. This concise, field-tested training manual will put your liaison on solid footing.

The Institutional Repository (IR) has become standard to the academic library in the past decade. However, IR operations are anything but standard. This resource gathers expertise to offer a comprehensive guide on contemporary institutional repository management.

The real-world initiatives and straightforward advice in this collection will embolden technical services managers and administrators to demonstrate the value of their work to stakeholders throughout their organisation.

Though it provides a richness of content, grey literature is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections.