Meeting the Challenge of Simultaneously Managing Digital, Electronic and Print Collections

Denise Lester

breeding, m.,marshall.breeding@librarytechnology.org. (2017). Meeting the challenge of simultaneously managing digital, electronic, and print collections. Computers in Libraries, 37(2), 16-18. Retrieved from http://libaccess.sjlibrary.org/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eft&AN=121841960&site=ehost-live&scope=site

This article clearly identifies the different formats within a collection such as physical resources, print and digital collections, electronic and other new media.  It then identifies the various strategies for managing these multiple formats and it further provides specific approaches to increasing the impact and quality of the collection through resource management techniques.  Lastly the article furnishes tactile suggestions on the use of flexible resource management systems and infrastructure maintenance that will withstand future trends and needs in collection management.