Publication Announcements
From Montclair State University & William Paterson University:
Mary Mallery. Associate Dean for Technical Services at Montclair State University, and Pamela Theus, Assistant Director of Collection Development and Resource Management at William Paterson University, published an article on "New Frontiers in Collaborative Collection Management" in the March, 2012 issue of the Technical Services Quarterly journal:
Mallery, M. & Theus, P. (2012): New Frontiers in Collaborative Collection Management, Technical Services Quarterly, 29(2), 101-112.
The authors provide a brief background of collaborative collection development efforts in libraries and describe ongoing, innovative projects to leverage the strength of collaboration across the VALE statewide academic library network in New Jersey to explore new methods of collection assessment, serials management, ebook collections development, and the pursuit of a shared virtual catalog. To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07317131.2012.650123 (Taylor & Francis Online access required.)
From Monmouth University:
Eleonora Dubicki, Associate Librarian, has co-authored an article with Jacqui DaCosta for a special issue of Library Trends on the work of the Information Literacy Progression Standards Task Force. DaCosta, J. & Dubicki, E. (2012). From Lampitt to Libraries: Formulating State Standards to Embed Information Literacy across Colleges. Library Trends, 60(3), 611-636.
R. N. Sharma, Ph.D., Dean of the Library at Monmouth University, has published his 12th book, entitled Libraries in the Early 21st Century: An International Perspective, Volume 1. It is a collection of essays on international librarianship written by well-known library leaders, librarians, library educators, and information professionals from all over the world including all past presidents of IFLA who are still living. The book has been published by De Gruyter Saur, official publisher of IFLA. Volume 2 of the book will be published during the spring of 2012.