The Bowker Annual Library And Book Trade Almanac 1998

Download or read book The Book Publishing Industry written by Albert N. Greco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an innovative and detailed overview of the book publishing industry, including details about the business processes in editorial, marketing and production. The work explores the complex issues that occur every day in the publishing industry.

Download or read book The Economics of the Publishing and Information Industries written by Albert N. Greco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Books, scholarly journals, business information, and professional information play a pivotal role in the political, social, economic, scientific, and intellectual life of nations. While publications abound on Wall Street and financial service companies, the relationship between Wall Street’s financial service companies and the publishing and information industries has not been explored until now. The Economics of the Publishing and Information Industries utilizes substantive historical, business, consumer, economic, sociological, technological, and quantitative and qualitative methodologies to understand the people, trends, strengths, opportunities, and threats the publishing industry and the financial service sector have faced in recent years. Various developments, both economic and demographic, contributed to the circumstances influencing the financial service sector’s investment in the publishing and information industries. This volume identifies and analyzes those developments, clearly laying out the forces that drove the marriage between the spheres of publishing and finance. This book offers insight and analysis that will appeal to those across a wide variety of fields and occupations, including those in financial service firms, instructors and students in business, communications, finance, or economics programs, business and financial reporters, regulators, private investors, and academic and major public research libraries.

Download or read book Influence of funding on advances in librarianship written by Danuta A. Nitecki and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Addresses the influence of research funding on advances in libraries and librarianship from two perspectives: funding agents and specific initiatives.

Download or read book Private Philanthropic Trends in Academic Libraries written by Luis Gonzalez and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private Philanthropic Trends in Academic Libraries is written with the senior library administrator and the development officers of academic institutions in mind. Chapters provide a historical perspective of the funding trends of the private philanthropic foundations and corporate giving programs towards academic libraries during the first decade of the 21st century. Library fundraisers and library administrators are presented with the information needed to start the process of selecting which grant maker agencies to approach. Chapters discuss which grantmaking philanthropic foundations and corporate-giving programs will be more receptive to grant monies to library projects, which types of library projects they will be more likely to fund, and how to approach these agencies in order to increase the possibilities of receiving grant awards from them. - The work provides starting points for library development and fundraising efforts - Covers the basics of fundraising - Presents the historical funding trends of private philanthropic foundations giving to academic libraries

Download or read book Publishers' Trade List Annual, 2000 written by Bowker and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2000 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book R.R. Bowker's American Library Directory Resource Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Unfinished Business written by Maurice B. Wheeler and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Unfinished Business points to all of the spokes on the wheel of library and information science education, from racial issues in the financial-aid process to the impact of technology on LIS students of color, and from the recruitment of minority students to faculty development. Beyond showing where LIS programs have fallen short, the contributors to this volume reinvigorate the discourse regarding the future. Unfinished Business is a catalyst for hope and strength in meeting the challenges of fully realizing the promise of the Brown v. Board of Education decision."--BOOK JACKET.