Marketing to Libraries for the New Millennium

Hendrik Edelman recently retired from the faculty of the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers University after forty years in the international book trade, academic librarianship, and library education. He expects to continue his many consulting, research, and teaching activities.Robert P. Holley is a Professor of Library and Information Science, Library and Information Science Program at Wayne State University.

• Part 1 Part 1: PresentationsChapter 2 OverviewChapter 3 KeynoteChapter 4 Compare and Contrast: How We Interpret the Results of the 1999 SurveyChapter 5 "Triangle Talk": Publishers Vendors and Librarians Speak out on What the Survey Tells Us about Changes in the Market and Needs for the FutureChapter 6 Selling and Promoting Libraries: What Are Publishers and Vendors Doing to Reach Libraries?Chapter 7 Cyberspace and Book Selection: How Librarians and Patrons Are Coming to the Internet to Find out about the Books They NeedChapter 8 Buying from Publishers and Vendors: A Discussion among Librarians, Vendors, and Publishers Focusing on How Librarians Decide to Buy and from WhomChapter 9 ConclusionsPart 10 Part 2: Results of the AAP/ALCTS Library Marketing SurveyChapter 11 Publisher QuestionnaireChapter 12 Vendor QuestionnaireChapter 13 Library Questionnaire

An interesting snapshot of the library market from several viewpoints.