David Baker and Wendy Evans, University College Plymouth St Mark and St John, UK

 - provides practical approach to the subject
 - focuses on the challenges associated with the economic and financial aspects of digital developments
 - will be valuable to practitioners, and tutors and students in a wide variety of situations
 - covers all key aspects of digital library economics
 - fills a gap in the field and follows the developments outlined in Digital Library Economics

This book provides a companion volume to Digital Library Economics and focuses on the ‘how to’ of managing digital collections and services (of all types) with regard to their financing and financial management. The emphasis is on case studies and practical examples drawn from a wide variety of contexts. A Handbook of Digital Library Economics is a practical manual for those involved – or expecting to be involved – in the development and management of digital libraries.

Readership: Anyone involved in digital library developments and digital collections and services (whether or not library-based), including managers, subject specialists, project directors, technical staff, content creators, editors and managers, researchers, lecturers and students of library and information science and students and researchers, lecturers and students of the internet and of digital economics.