Collaborative Collection Development features in

Collection Manager

Miriam de La Rochefordiere4th AMICAL ConferenceAUI, IfraneMay 2007

• The bookshop was first opened in Oxford (UK) in 1879

• Blackwell Book Services is a source of books and acquisition services for academic and research libraries

• Offices in the USA, the UK and AU

The company – brief introduction

The Services

• Approval Plan Service• Firm Order Service• Standing Order Service• ECommons (ebooks & Reference material

in e-format)• Collection Manager (database)• Out-of-Print Service• MaRC records + Table of Contents (TOC)• Library Dynamics: tools for visualizing,

developing, managing and interpreting library and library consortia collections

COLLECTION MANAGER

Main Menu

Blackwell Thesaurus

New titles on Collection Manager (ex. Urbanism)

Title detail

TOC – partial view

Non-subject parameters

E-book preview

Ebook content

Enotes – new title announcements services

Series Manager - Standing Orders management

Collaborative Collection Development

Blackwell has developed features in Collection Manager and in its Approval system to respond to group/consortium requirements for collaboration, specifically:

• Subject profiling• Collection Manager

– Combined view of activity for each library– Other tools for collaboration

• Reporting

Reports

Types of reports:• Coverage and gaps with Consortium sales

and returns

• Coverage and gaps in Consortium approval activity

• Non-Subject descriptor analysis showing coverage and gaps in Consortium sales

• Group Cost Estimates, Order Management reports, Duplication Analysis…and more.

THANK YOU!

Miriam de La RochefordiereMiriam.rochefordiere@blackwell.c

o.ukwww.blackwell.com