Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management
Author: Peggy Johnson
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 569
Release: 2014-03-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 083891960X

In this sweeping revision of a text that has become an authoritative standard, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson addresses the art of controlling and updating library collections, whether located locally or accessed remotely.

Guide to Collection Development and Management Administration, Organization, and Staffing

Guide to Collection Development and Management Administration, Organization, and Staffing
Author: Association for Library Collections & Technical Services
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780810841307

To a new collection development librarian just learning the field or to an experienced practitioner attempting to reorganize a program, the options can be confusing and contradictory. Guide to Collection Development and Management Administration, Organization, and Staffing provides an overview of the organizational alternatives available to libraries by addressing activities and explaining the models used in public, academic, and school libraries. It provides an overview of possible structures and indicates some of the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Organization Charts

Organization Charts
Author:
Publisher: Association of Research Libr
Total Pages: 120
Release: 1986
Genre: Academic libraries
ISBN:

Collection Development

Collection Development
Author: Maureen Pastine
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2013-10-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1317951050

With the prolific changes in the electronic environment, do you sometimes feel overwhelmed by the multiplying of electronic information resources, the different methods of access, and their combined impact on collection development? If so, Collection Development is the book to help you get a handle on what’s out there! In no time at all, you’ll be able to select and integrate electronic resources into collection development programs at even the most traditional of libraries! In the process, you will learn alternative approaches for dealing with electronic databases, on-line access, and fiscal planning for the integration of the new information technologies into collection development. Collection Development offers useful strategies for dealing with electronic resources in terms of selection and evaluation, collection development policies, organizational structure, and budgeting. You also acquire important information on: Internet information resources accessible through Gophers and World Wide Web sites access vs. ownership issues serving the remote user at an extended campus site the relationship of selection to acquisitions managing a CD-Rom collection development process planning issues of cooperation, collaboration, and change pricing and planning issues and their impact on library budgets negotiating site licenses Librarians in collection development, academic librarians, and personnel in technology/authomation development will find Collection Development an indispensable tool for grappling with the demands and pressures of screening and choosing the most suitable information resources from the dynamic, even saturated, world of technology. The book’s insights and practical methodologies will help you integrate new on-line and electronic information resources into your program with relative ease.

Guide to Writing Collection Development Policies for Music

Guide to Writing Collection Development Policies for Music
Author: Amanda Maple
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 2001
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9780810840065

Every music collection has its own specific features in terms of flexibility, users, and selceting criteria, therefore a universal formula for writing collection development policies doesn't exist. This study aims to help librarians who are responsible for writing policies and refers not only to the proper process of planning a library's information resources, but also to other related activities, incorporated into or coordinated with the collection development policy: collection management activities and resource sharing programmes.