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Record Nr.

UNINA9911131617503321

Titolo

Collection development policies : new directions for changing collections / / Daniel C. Mack, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Binghamton, N.Y. : , : Haworth Information Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-79695-9

0-429-23884-3

0-203-82683-3

1-283-88617-0

1-136-79696-7

9780429238840

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MackDaniel C

Disciplina

025.2/1

Soggetti

Collection development (Libraries)

Academic libraries - Collection development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as The acquisitions librarian, number 30, 2003."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Changing collections, changing policies / Daniel C. Mack -- Pricing and acquisitions policies for electronic resources: is the market stable enough to establish local standards? / Rebecca S. Albitz -- Subject-specific policy statements: a rationale and framework for collection development / Glenn S. McGuigan, Gary W. White -- The end of an American (library) dream: the rise and decline of the collection development policy statement at Berkeley / James H. Spohrer -- Using a collection development curriculum as a model for developing policy documents in practice / Sheila S. Intner -- Collection development at SJU Libraries: compromises, missions, and transitions / Lois Cherepon, Andrew Sankowski -- Collection management statements on the world wide web / Joseph Straw -- Acquisitions policy for contemporary topics in an academic library: managing the ephemeral / Ashley Robinson -- Impact of technical services' policies on access and collection development / Magda El-Sherbini -- Nicholson Baker wasn't all wrong: a collection development policy for remote storage facilities / Elka



Tenner Shlomo -- Collection development: curriculum materials center / Justina O. Osa -- Cooperation between collection development and cataloging: a policy for proposing projects to cataloging services / Rebecca L. Mugridge.

Sommario/riassunto

Get the tools you need to build a collection development policy that will help your library run efficiently?today and in the future!  Considering the amount and variety of topics being published, effectively organizing and guiding a library in today's accelerated world is no easy task. Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collections is the contemporary librarians guide to building or revising a first-rate collection development policy. In this up-to-date book, experts in the field take you step-by-step through the publishing process from writing an initial draf

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911137202203321

Autore

Apffel-Marglin Frédérique

Titolo

Subversive spiritualities : how rituals enact the world / / Frédérique Apffel-Marglin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-991247-5

9786613423139

1-283-42313-8

0-19-979385-9

0-19-979396-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Oxford ritual studies series

Classificazione

LB 58000

LC 29000

LC 42000

Disciplina

201/.44

Soggetti

Rites and ceremonies - Peru

Rites and ceremonies - India

Shamanism - Peru

Shamanism - India

Peru Religious life and customs

India Religious life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- The politics of "wilderness" : the nature/culture dualism revisited -- Economics and the making of "natural resources" -- Re-entangling the material and the discursive : quantum physics and agential realism -- The spirit of the gift in the Peruvian Andes : Yarqa Aspiy in Quispillacta -- Supersessionism and the teaching of agronomy in Peru -- Dancing with the mountain in the Altiplano : the festival of the Ispallas -- The state and feminist missionizing in Bolivia / with Loyda Sanchez -- Beyond absolute time and space : from representation to performativity in rituals -- Fair trade and the possibility of bio-cultural regeneration -- Epilogue : performing the lessons learned.

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Frederique Apffel-Marglin draws on a lifetime of work with the indigenous peoples of Peru and India to support her argument that the beliefs, values, and practices of such traditional peoples are 'eco-metaphysically true'.