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The Role of Self-Publishing in Libraries
- Library Trends
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 57, Number 1, Summer 2008
- pp. 43-51
- 10.1353/lib.0.0021
- Article
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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?
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