Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 136
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Trim: 8½ x 11
978-1-5381-0100-1 • Paperback • January 2018 • $80.00 • (£62.00)
978-1-5381-0101-8 • eBook • January 2018 • $76.00 • (£58.00)
Matthew C. Mariner is the digital collections manager at Auraria Library, a tri-institutional academic library serving the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and Community College of Denver all on one campus in downtown Denver, Colorado. He specializes in audiovisual digitization, ETD management, and the collection, digitization, and dissemination of undergraduate and non-traditional theses and dissertations.
Chapter 1. The Foundations of ETD Management
Chapter 2. Establishing an ETD Collecting Program
Chapter 3. Authors’ Rights in ETDs
Chapter 4. Retrospective Thesis and Dissertations Digitization
Chapter 5. Capstones, Projects, and Other Unique Formats
Chapter 6. Enhancing ETD Collections and Preparing for the Future
Chapter 7 Essential Takeaways
. . . I would recommend this guide for library and information science collections. As the art of managing ETD programs matures within academic libraries, this book usefully covers some established best practices. After about five years of managing ETDs myself, I came away with new ideas about moving past some of the stumbling blocks in our program. With very few existing monographs on the topic, Mariner has made an important contribution to the literature.
— Technical Services Quarterly
This book provides a coherent and practical guide to electronic thesis and dissertation (ETD) and related program implementation and repository collection management to enhance scholarly communications at colleges and universities. It includes comprehensive discussions on born-digital and retrospective digitization projects, scope and types of collections, campus outreach, logistics, author rights, institutional responsibilities, academic publishing trends, repository systems and services, resource management, standards and preservation. This well-documented text offers relevant real-world examples and illustrations as well as sources for further assistance. Written in easily digestible sections, this invaluable and timely resource will be appreciated by novice as well as veteran librarians, graduate school administrators and information technologists.
— John H. Hagen, executive director, United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA)
Managing and Improving Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Programs, by Matthew C. Mariner, is a must have for the reference shelves of prospective, new or even well-established Electronic Thesis or Dissertation (ETDs) programs. ETD’s have been around for 20 years but that does not make them easy to establish, manage or improve. With chapter topics including authors’ rights, retrospective digitization and capstone projects, anyone involved in any phase of an ETD program would benefit from owning a copy of this resource.
— Cathleen L. Martyniak, director, Southern Regional Library Facility and Collaborative Shared Print Programs, University of California, Los Angeles