Managing Economic Challenges

What does it take to create self-sustaining information services while honoring the ethics of the library profession and engaging all of the stakeholders, including publishers and information creators? This report series explores the economic implications of information-technology developments for libraries and other stakeholders, and presents models for business planning and for sustainability of research collections.

This list includes selected reports. A chronological list provides a complete listing of all published reports.

pub139 Library Workflow Redesign: Six Case Studies by Marilyn Mitchell, editor. January 2007.

pub127 The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats by Roger C. Schonfeld, Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, Eileen Gifford Fenton. June 2004.

pub124 Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions by Liz Bishoff and Nancy Allen. January 2004.

pub118 A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns by Diane M. Zorich. June 2003.

pub100 Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums. August 2001.

pub99 Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices by Timothy D. Jewell. July 2001.

pub98 Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources by Louis A. Pitschmann. June 2001.

pub94 White Paper on Electronic Journal Usage Statistics by Judy Luther. October 2000.

pub90 Managing Cultural Assets from a Business Perspective by Laura Price and Abby Smith. March 2000.