Supply chain management for collection services of academic libraries: solving operational challenges and enhancing user productivity

Contents

Supply chain for libraries -- Big picture -- Emerging values -- Supply chain and supply chain cases -- Supply chain strategies for libraries -- Supply chain model for libraries -- Plan -- Collection planning -- 7. Source -- Acquisitions and licensing -- Make -- Collection enhancements -- Deliver -- Stack services and delivery -- Return -- Collection return and get ready for the next user -- What Is essential and what is peripheral for libraries -- Unique to libraries -- Disruptive innovations of the collection services supply chain -- Emerging standards, practices, and technologies -- Start with the end in mind -- Whole is greater than sum of its parts -- Where the rubber meets the road.