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According to the European Library portal http://search.theeuropeanlibrary.org/portal/en/index.html all 3 editions from 1968 / 2003 / 2010 are held in Belgium -fyi For those interested you can check many other countries here in addition to WorldCat holdings --cheers, Karen Weaver Bibliothèque Royale de Belgique (KBR) Fichier principal Description complète Titre : Encyclopedia of library and information sciences / by Marcia J. Bates and Mary Niles Maack Auteur(s) : Marcia J. Bates Mary Niles Maack Edition : 3rd edition Editeur(s) : West Palm Beach, Fla. : CRC Press, 2010 Collation : 7 vol. : ill. ; 29 cm ISBN : 978-0-8493-9704-2 Cote de l'ouvrage : 9 B/2010/1.198 (Magasin - Salle de lecture générale) Coll. : vol 1 : Academic - Catalogs vol 2 : CD-ROM - Domain vol 3 : Dublin - Information Literacy vol 4 : Information Management - Lesbian vol 5 : Libraries -Organizational vol 6 : Pacific - Sociology vol 7 : Software - Zoological On 4/5/11, Laval Hunsucker <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > It has been interesting for me to note the points made in this > thread.-- especially those by Marcia Bates herself. My thanks > for that. > > I'm not sure what I would have done in this case as library > selector myself. The publication came out just after my > retirement, and anyway I had been responsible for the > collections notin LIS, but in another group of disciplines. > > But what I've now read in this thread has more or less > convinced me, and today I put in a good word for the > acquisition of ELIS3 at the academic library where I was > employed until nearly the end of 2009. Who knows -- > maybe that will help. It's this country's largest library system, > at the university which furthermore has this country's only > full-fledged library/information/archiveseducation program. > > As I wrote in a previous posting, neither that institution nor > any other in the country has yet acquired ELIS3, in either > electronic or printed form. And as far as WorldCat is > concerned -- it's really poor in establishing whether and where > copies of publications are available in Europe, and I was using > other, more local and reliable, resources for my previous > posting indicating the absence or near-absence of ELIS3 in > many European countries. Ola Pilerot mentioned the availability > of the resource in Sweden, and that had struck me too as a > kind of exception ( Borås, Växjö ). But the biggest exception, I > noticed, is Germany -- with copies in Berlin (FU), Dresden, > Hagen ( Fernuniversität ! ), Halle, Hamburg, Jena, München > (BSb), Saarbrücken, Stuttgart, Trier and ( I think ) the DNb ; > and to a lesser extent Switzerland ( Bern, Genève, Zürich ). > > > - Laval Hunsucker > Breukelen, Nederland > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Karen Weaver, MLS Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask] / Gmail: [log in to unmask]