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Selecting and Managing Electronic Resources (review)

Collection Development in the Electronic Environment” based on his extensive experience at Brown University. Other less useful papers on consortia and collections, by Barbara McFadden Allen, and John Walsdorf’s report of a survey on electronic innovations by monograph vendors, provide reports on topics treated more effectively elsewhere. The spring 2000 issue of Library Trends, “Collection Development in an Electronic Environment,” edited by Thomas A. Nisonger, covers the same territory as this collection in much greater depth. A comprehensive review of the literature (1980–2000) provides an excellent historical perspective and other articles treat all aspects of theory and practice: the nature of electronic resources, digitization, selection, the role of bibliographer and related staffing issues, and the development of consortia as resource sharing powerhouses. Rather than treating the breadth or depth of a topic, conference papers frequently report how particular libraries grapple with important issues. In so doing a collection of such papers provides practical, valuable advice readers can adapt for problem solving in their own libraries. On the whole the present collection serves this purpose well.