Collection Management Basics

Collection Management Basics
Author: Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-05-24
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440859655

If the heart of the library is its collection, this textbook provides the keys to the heart of your library. Alongside standards of basic principles and processes, you'll find practical guidance on everything from acquisitions to preservation. Managing collections in today's libraries is more complicated and challenging than ever. Electronic formats, new options for collaboration and sharing, and the drive to use data for evaluation purposes are just a few of the changes now driving collection management. This updated edition of a classic text addresses changes in the field and provides a thorough overview of what collection development specialists now need to know to effectively and efficiently manage processes that range from selection and assessment to sharing resources, handling challenges, weeding, and preservation. Readers will find increased coverage of technical services, intellectual freedom and censorship, and collection policy development, as well as budget development and tracking, joint purchasing, and negotiating with vendors. Updates on e-resources, user needs assessment (including data visualization), and disaster management, along with suggestions for further reading, are also included. Engagingly written and easy to understand, this is a valuable text for students preparing for careers in public, academic, school, and special libraries. It will additionally serve as a training resource and professional refresher for practitioners.

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Author: Boston Public Library
Publisher:
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1926
Genre: Bibliography
ISBN:

Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection

Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection
Author: Mary E. Miller
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2021-06-22
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838993869

By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users.

The Lucky List

The Lucky List
Author: Rachael Lippincott
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-06-01
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1534468552

Rachael Lippincott, coauthor of #1 New York Times bestseller Five Feet Apart, weaves a “breezy…truly charming” (Kirkus Reviews) love story about learning who you are, and who you love, when the person you’ve always shared yourself with is gone. Emily and her mom were always lucky. But Emily’s mom’s luck ran out three years ago when she succumbed to cancer, and nothing has felt right for Emily since. Now, the summer before her senior year, things are getting worse. Not only has Emily wrecked things with her boyfriend Matt, who her mom adored, but her dad is selling the house she grew up in and giving her mom’s belongings away. Soon, she’ll have no connections left to Mom but her lucky quarter. And with her best friend away for the summer and her other friends taking her ex’s side, the only person she has to talk to about it is Blake, the swoony new girl she barely knows. But that’s when Emily finds the list—her mom’s senior year summer bucket list—buried in a box in the back of her closet. When Blake suggests that Emily take it on as a challenge, the pair set off on a journey to tick each box and help Emily face her fears before everything changes. As they go further down the list, Emily finally begins to feel close to her mom again, but her bond with Blake starts to deepen, too, into something she wasn’t expecting. Suddenly Emily must face another fear: accepting the secret part of herself she never got a chance to share with the person who knew her best.

The A-List

The A-List
Author: Zoey Dean
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2003-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780613705745

Seventeen-year-old blueblood Anna Percy leaves Manhattan to spend the second half of her senior year with her father in Los Angeles and quickly becomes involved in the lives of the rich and famous at Beverly Hills High School

The Numismatist

The Numismatist
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 596
Release: 1912
Genre: Numismatics
ISBN:

Vols. 24-52 include the proceedings of the A.N.A. convention. 1911-39.