New Scholarship: New Serials: Proceedings of the North American Serials Interest Group, Inc.

This book focuses on research and its relationship to publishing. New Scholarship, New Serials provides readers with challenges and ideas as they consider the future of serial publications. Chapters address the evolving nature of information, exploring:

• how nonprint, moving manifestations of knowledge might be delivered to users
• how libraries and librarians will fit into this new world
• how serials might be produced and controlled in the next century
  
  Authors incorporate these ideas into the daily work of the reader through discussions of:
• bibliographic control of electronic publications
• the future of subscription agents in the broadening information setting
• current experiments with electronic publishing/document delivery
• the ever-present problem of copyright in a nonprint environment
  
  New Scholarship, New Serials is an important source of ideas and information for professionals interested in the problems facing those who must struggle with the changing aspects of serial publications. The ideas put forth in this volume will help readers move more smoothly into the future of serials.