Full Description
Using this guide, collection managers and acquisitions librarians, preservation librarians, catalogers, and library managers will understand how to utilize the technical services workflow to process and showcase this unique material.An important resource for scholarly research, grey literature is relevant to every discipline. It's also often more current than commercial publications. Unfortunately, though it provides a richness of content, this type of scholarly resource is often overlooked when conducting research. This book aims to change that, describing the importance of grey literature and offering a holistic approach to successfully integrating it into library collections. Readers will learn
an overview of grey literature that discusses its importance to researchers, scholars, and students;
collections policies for selection and deselection, complete with a suggested workflow;
information about vendors, OA, and other aspects of acquisitions;
guidance on cataloging, such as collection categories in the public-facing catalog, and preservation; and
methods for promoting grey literature in library collections, including institutional repositories; and
tips for marketing, branding, outreach, and best communication practices for colleagues, administrators, and patrons.
Contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Grey Literature: its Past, Present and Future
Chapter 2 Managing and Weeding the Grey Literature Collection
Chapter 3 Ideas and Challenges in Cataloging Grey Literature
Chapter 4 Persistent Identifiers and Grey Literature: A PID Project and GreyNet Use Case
Chapter 5 Communicating the value of international grey literature: the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) experience
Chapter 6 Impact of Digital Transformation on Grey Literature
Contributors
Index
