Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections

Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections
Author: Vicki L. Gregory
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2019-07-03
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838917127

Packed with discussion questions, activities, suggested additional references, selected readings, and many other features that speak directly to students and library professionals, Gregory’s Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections is a comprehensive handbook that also shares myriad insightful ideas and approaches valuable to experienced practitioners. This new second edition brings an already stellar text fully up to date, presenting top-to-bottom coverage of the impact of new technologies and developments on the discipline, including discussion of e-books, open access, globalization, self-publishing, and other trends; needs assessment, policies, and selection sources and processes; budgeting and fiscal management; collection assessment and evaluation; weeding, with special attention paid to electronic materials; collaborative collection development and resource sharing; marketing and outreach; self-censorship as a component of intellectual freedom, professional ethics, and other legal issues; diversity and ADA issues; preservation; and the future of the field. Additional features include updated vendor lists, samples of a needs assessment report, a collection development policy, an approval plan, and an electronic materials license.

Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
Author: Peggy Johnson
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838990495

In this fully updated revision, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson addresses the art in controlling and updating your library's collection.

Collection Development in the Digital Age

Collection Development in the Digital Age
Author: Maggie Fieldhouse
Publisher: Facet Publishing
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2011-12-20
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1856047466

This topical edited collection is cross-sectoral and international in scope, drawing together the perspectives of practitioners and academics at the forefront of modern collection development. They explore how practitioners can take an active role influencing strategy in this new environment, draw on case studies that illustrate the key changes in context, and consider how collection development might evolve in the future. The collection is divided into four sections looking at the key themes: • The conceptual framework including a review of the literature • Trends in library supply such as outsourcing and managing suppliers • Trends in electronic resources including the open access movement and e-books • Making and keeping your collection effectively including engaging with the user-community and developing commercial skills. Readership: LIS students and all practitioners involved in collection development and management in academic, school, public, commercial and other special libraries.

Electronic Collection Management

Electronic Collection Management
Author: Suzan D Mcginnis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 170
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 131795193X

Build and manage your collection of digital resources with these successful strategies! This comprehensive volume is a practical guide to the art and science of acquiring and organizing electronic resources. The collections discussed here range in size from small college libraries to large research libraries, but all are facing similar problems: shrinking budgets, increasing demands, and rapidly shifting formats. Electronic Collection Management offers new ideas for coping with these issues. Bringing together diverse aspects of collection development, Electronic Collection Management investigates traditional strategies that still have value and suggests innovative solutions to new problems. It also offers informed discussion on how collection development and management are likely to change in the future. More and more, the emphasis is turning from collecting information to organizing it, a paradigm shift that is nothing short of a revolution in library science. Electronic Collection Management examines some of the toughest issues of electronic collections management, including: handling tensions in liberal arts colleges over patron expectations, library budgets, and collection priorities taking technical issues into account in selecting electronic resources controlling costs for scientific serials organizing electronic resources for ease of access facing the challenges of distance learning finding fresh perspectives on traditional publication formats Electronic Collection Management presents practical advice and solid information on the urgent issues subject bibliographers and collection development librarians are confronting today.

Collection Management in the Cloud

Collection Management in the Cloud
Author: Kayla Kipps
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2022-03-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538151901

As remote work has become routine, cloud-based technology tools have become increasingly necessary to communicate with other library staff and with faculty and staff to continue providing seamless and uninterrupted access to library resources and collections for our campus community. Cloud-based technology tools such as Google Forms and Google Sheets are used to gather faculty requests for collection development, tools such as Tableau are used to illustrate material budget balances, and platforms such as Trello have been adopted to track subscription renewal cycles and manage other projects. This guide discusses the benefits of using these powerful cloud-based and little to no additional cost technology tools through the lens of a particular area in librarianship such as documentation, data and project management, communication, data storage, and data visualization. While the real-world examples provided throughout focus on technical services staff operations, specifically acquisitions and electronic collection management, each tool’s features and use cases are transferable among all areas of librarianship. This guide provides insights into how collaborative, dynamic, and accessible these cloud-based solutions are for a technologically shifting workplace as well as considers the challenges to adopting cloud-based solutions such as administrative buy-in, aversion to change, and steeper learning curves as well. Readers will gain practical experiential examples that have been instrumental in creating efficiencies in collection management workflows for technical services staff. The use cases illustrated exemplify enhancements that librarians can incorporate into their own collection management practices to further engage with their colleagues, their patrons, and their larger communities more effectively and efficiently.

Transforming Print

Transforming Print
Author: Shari Laster
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-06
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838948828

In this book, collection management staff at academic libraries will find fertile ideas for transforming print collections to become more engaging and widely used by the diverse communities they serve.

Creating Digital Collections

Creating Digital Collections
Author: Allison Zhang
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-01-23
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1780631383

Libraries recognize the importance of digitizing archival material to improve access to and preservation of their special collections. This book provides a step-by-step guide for creating digital collections, including examples and practical tips that have never been published before. - Illustrates concepts with an on-going case study at the end of each chapter - Provides detailed technical information and practical experience Discusses practitioners' insight in digitization - Can be used as a guide for creating digital collections

Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections

Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections
Author: Carol A. Singer
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2012-06-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838911536

This important new book will help librarians make better reference decisions, aligned to customer needs and expectations, especially significant with today’s limited budgets.

Techniques for Electronic Resource Management

Techniques for Electronic Resource Management
Author: Jill Emery
Publisher: ALA Editions
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019-10-28
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780838919040

Whether a single team manages electronic resources or responsibility is spread across your library, this book will be your go-to ERM reference.

E-books in Academic Libraries

E-books in Academic Libraries
Author: Ksenija Minčić-Obradović
Publisher: Chandos Pub
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2011
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9781843345862

E-books have changed academic library collections. This book is a comprehensive look at the best practices in place for planning and managing e-book collections in community, junior college, and university libraries. Specific topics covered include: E-book collection development and management, Innovative uses of e-books in academic contexts, Trends in faculty and student acceptance of and interaction with e-books, Purchasing models, and Solutions for dealing with varying formats and the lack of standardization.