Managing Grey Literature

Susan E. Thomas served as the ALCTS Monographs Editor from 2015 to 2020. She is the Director of Collection Services for the Schurz Library and Subject Librarian for the Health Sciences at Indiana University South Bend. Susan has twenty-nine years of experience working in academic libraries. Prior to her current position at IU South Bend, Susan served as the Facilitator for Reference Services (1997–2004) and Archivist (1995–1997) at Valdosta State University (Georgia); the Assistant Head of the Regents Center Library and Bibliographer for Social Welfare at the University of Kansas/Edwards Campus; and as a Medical Reference Librarian at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center Library. Susan holds a BA in Psychology (Indiana University), a Master's in Library and Information Science (Indiana University), and a Master's in Public Affairs (Indiana University South Bend).Michelle Leonard is a tenured librarian at the Marston Science Library, George A. Smathers Libraries, at the University of Florida. She is a collection manager for the natural resources and environmental sciences disciplines that span engineering, agriculture and geological sciences. Michelle is the co-author of the highly reviewed Implementing and Assessing Use-Driven Acquisitions (2016). She has conducted presentations on assessment and collection building at several conferences, including the Library Assessment Conference, Charleston Library Conference, Association of College & Research Libraries Conference, ALA Annual Conferences, American Chemical Society National Meeting & Exposition, and the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Sciences Libraries and Information Centres (IAMSLIC) Conferences.

• PrefaceChapter 1 Grey Literature: its Past, Present and FutureChapter 2 Managing and Weeding the Grey Literature CollectionChapter 3 Ideas and Challenges in Cataloging Grey LiteratureChapter 4 Persistent Identifiers and Grey Literature: A PID Project and GreyNet Use CaseChapter 5 Communicating the value of international grey literature: the Aquatic Sciences & Fisheries Abstracts (ASFA) experienceChapter 6 Impact of Digital Transformation on Grey LiteratureContributorsIndex