1. Collaborative Collection Development features in Collection Manager Miriam de La Rochefordiere 4 th AMICAL Conference AUI, Ifrane May 2007

2. The bookshop was first opened in Oxford (UK) in 1879 Blackwell Book Services is a source of books and acquisition services for academic and research libraries Offices in the USA, the UK and AU The company – brief introduction

3. The Services Approval Plan Service Firm Order Service Standing Order Service ECommons (ebooks & Reference material in e- format) Collection Manager (database) Out-of-Print Service MaRC records + Table of Contents (TOC) Library Dynamics: tools for visualizing, developing, managing and interpreting library and library consortia collections

4. COLLECTION MANAGER

5. Main Menu

6. Blackwell Thesaurus

7. New titles on Collection Manager (ex. Urbanism)

8. Title detail

9. TOC – partial view

10. Non-subject parameters

11. E-book preview

12. Ebook content

14. Enotes – new title announcements services

15. Series Manager - Standing Orders management

18. Collaborative Collection Development Blackwell has developed features in Collection Manager and in its Approval system to respond to group/consortium requirements for collaboration, specifically: Subject profiling Collection Manager –Combined view of activity for each library –Other tools for collaboration Reporting

25. Reports Types of reports: Coverage and gaps with Consortium sales and returns Coverage and gaps in Consortium approval activity Non-Subject descriptor analysis showing coverage and gaps in Consortium sales Group Cost Estimates, Order Management reports, Duplication Analysis…and more.

27. THANK YOU! Miriam de La Rochefordiere Miriam.rochefordiere@blackwell.co.uk www.blackwell.com