Focus Shift and Outsourcing in University Libraries’Acquisition and Cataloguing
- Chunlan Qiu
- Yonglin Xiao
- Rongshuang Lu
Abstract
Focus shift and outsourcing in university libraries’ acquisition and cataloguing, which are the trends of re-composition and optimized allocation of social resources in market mechanism, will help to improve the quality of document construction as well as the efficiency of acquisition and cataloguing and allocate human resources in a more reasonable way. Nowadays, outsourcing of books has become usual practice in libraries. It should be the future focus to construct scientific and reasonable collection structure, acquire books in different channels, forms and at different levels and to extend acquisition and cataloguing services.- Full Text:
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- DOI:10.5539/ijbm.v3n3p129
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