Includes bibliographical references and index.

Technical services today / Michael Gorman -- The ordering, claiming, and receipt of materials / Karen A. Schmidt; rev. by Ron L. Ray -- Gifts and exchanges / Frank Carothers -- Serials acquisitions: trends and prospects / Lisa German -- Materials budget management: good practice, good politics / Stanley J. Wilder, Mary Katherine Brannon, Tonya H. Chustz -- Bibliographic standards and the globalization of bibliographic control / Pat Oddy -- Descriptive cataloguing: its past, present and future / Michael Gorman -- Subject cataloguing and classification / Lois Mai Chan, Theodora Hodges; rev. by Giles Martin -- Cataloguing management: managing the bibliographic control process / Roxanne Sellberg -- Authority control / Kerrie Talmacs -- The online catalogue in academic libraries / William Gray Potter -- Circulation services / Nancy R. Nelson -- Technical services organization / Jennifer A. Younger, D. Kaye Gapen; rev. by Cecily Johns -- Technical services budgeting and financing / Michael Rancer -- Technical services tomorrow / Michael Gorman.

Undergraduate, Graduate and Researchers.

BA (Hons.), MA (Regular), MA (Evening).

Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2000. Available via the World Wide Web. Available in multiple electronic file formats. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.