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- Title
The Role of Self-Publishing in Libraries.
- Authors
DAWSON, LAURA
- Abstract
The boom in self-publishing has created a market of hundreds of thousands of new books a year. The Library of Congress doesn't catalog most of these. Is it fair to dismiss these books as "vanity publications," or are there some valuable resources in this book glut for collections-development librarians to explore? Are there sensible ways of acquiring these books? And how do Web searches affect types of content we haven't always seen as having value?
- Subjects
SELF-publishing; PUBLISHING; LIBRARIES &; publishing; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; VANITY presses; PRIVATELY printed books
- Publication
Library Trends, 2008, Vol 57, Issue 1, p43
- ISSN
0024-2594
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/lib.0.0021