Arnold Hirshon: Recent Publications

• “A Diamond in the Rough: Divining the Future of E-Content,” 40 Educause Review (January/February 2005): 34-44
• “Reading Between The Headlines: A Guide for the Future of E-Content,” 40 Educause Review (November/December 2004): 12-13.
• “Statement Of Current Perspective And Preferred Practices For The Selection And Purchase Of Electronic Information: Update No. 1 -- New Developments In E-Journal Licensing.”   International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).  (With: T. Sanville, French, F. Friend)
• "International Library Consortia: Positive Starts, Promising Futures." 35 Journal of Library Administration no. 1/2 (2001): 147-166.
• Access to Electronic Resources in Massachusetts & the Nation: A Snapshot .  Southborough, MA: NELINET, Inc., 2001. [produced for the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners] 
• Editor, Library Consortium Management: An International Journal .  (MCB Publications, 1999-2000)
• "The Development of Library Client Service Programs and the Role of Library Consortia." Library Consortium Management: an International Journal.  (vol. 1, no. 3/4, 1999): 59-75.

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• "Libraries, Consortia, and Change Management." Journal of Academic Librarianship (March 1999): 124-126.
• Integrating Computing and Library Services: An Administrative Planning and Implementation Guide for Information Resources [Boulder, CO:  EDUCAUSE, 1998] (CAUSE Professional Paper Series, no. 18)

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• "Hanging Together to Avoid Hanging Separately: Opportunities for Libraries and Consortia." Information Technology and Libraries (March 1998): 36-44.  (With: B. McFadden Allen)
• "Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information." International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC).  1998   (With: T. Sanville, A. Okerson, D. Kohl)
• “Jam Tomorrow, Jam Yesterday, But Never Jam Today: Some Modest Proposals for Venturing Through the Looking-glass of Scholarly Communication.”  (34 Serials Librarian no. 1/2, 1998: 65-87.  [Presented at the North American Serials Interest Group (Ann Arbor, June 1, 1997) and the International Association of Technical University Libraries (Trondheim, Norway, June 30, 1997)]
• Outsourcing of Library Technical Services. New York: Neal-Schuman, 1996.   (With: B. Winters)
• "Running with the Red Queen: Breaking New Habits to Survive in the Virtual World." Advances in Librarianship. (Orlando: Academic Press, 1996): 1 - 26.
• "Saying What We Will Do, and Doing What We Say: Implementing a Customer Service Plan."   22 Journal of Academic Librarianship (May 1996): 173-180. (With: S. Wehmeyer and D. Auchter)
• "Library Strategic Alliances and the Digital Library in the 1990s" Journal of Academic Librarianship (September 1995): 383-386
• "The Lobster Quadrille: The Future of Technical Services in a Reengineering World." The Future is Now: the Changing Face of Technical Services: Proceedings of the OCLC Symposium (ALA Midwinter 1994). Dublin, OH: Online Computer Library Center, 1994: 14-20.
• After the Electronic Revolution, Will You Be the First to Go? Proceedings of the 1992 Association for Library Collections & Technical Services President's Program . Chicago: American Library Association, 1993. [Editor, and author of "Preface" (pp. v-ix) and chapter 1, "The Convergence of Publishingand Bibliographic Access" (pp. 1-8).]
• "Organizational Design of Technical Services Operations." Technical Services in Libraries: Systems and Applications (Foundations in Library and Information Science series). Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1992:  31-57.
• "Beyond Our Walls: Academic Libraries, Technical Services, and the Information World." In: Managing Technical Services in the 90s. (Journal of LibraryAdministration , v. 15, no. 1-2). New York: Haworth Press, 1991: 43-59.
• "Vision, Focus, and Technology in Academic Research Libraries: 1971 to 2001." Advances in Library Automation and Networking, v.2. (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1988): 215-257.
• Editor, RTSD Newsletter (Chicago: American Library Association, Resources and Technical Services Division). 1979-1985
• "Recent Developments in the Accessibility of Presidential Papers and OtherHistorical Materials." 6 Government Publications Review (1979): 343-357
• "The Scope, Accessibility, and History of Presidential Papers." 1 GovernmentPublications Review (1974): 363-390