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.

Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library

Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library
Author: Cheryl J. Duncan
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2014-09-11
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0810884569

Using vendor licensing and fair use guidelines, library collections can contain thousands of online videos either purchased or through in-house digitization. In this book, the authors share their knowledge developed in building and maintaining a streaming video collection. Highlights include key information and tips, as well as recommended best practices, for the licensing and acquisitions processes, providing access, promoting the collection, and evaluating the library and vendor collections. The authors cover the options for acquiring streaming video titles and options for hosting videos. The book is structured with an introduction, a chapter on each key process with subsections on specific aspects of those processes, and finally with a concluding chapter which looks at the future of streaming video collections for libraries. Creating a Streaming Video Collection for Your Library will serve as a key reference and source of best practices for libraries adding streaming video titles to their collections or for any library that is already offering streaming video. Since this is a relatively new area of collection development, this book will help libraries and video vendors establish consistent guidelines, licensing models and workflows.

Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults

Developing Library Collections for Today's Young Adults
Author: Amy S. Pattee
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 403
Release: 2020-02-14
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1538123568

In the five years since the first edition of Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults was published, numerous changes have taken place in the landscape of young adult literature and young adult library services. Informed by the professional activism—including the “We Need Diverse Books” (#wndb) movement—today’s professionals recognize that library collections for young adults are incomplete if they fail to address and reflect a diversity of racial, ethnic, and cultural identities; gender identities; sexual orientations; and identities related to ability and disability. Contemporary librarians working to diversify their collections select material in a number of formats and must consider the accessibility of both old and new media as they select titles and resources. Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults, Ensuring Inclusion and Access, Second Edition, offers guidance to librarians confronted with an expanding universe of published material from which to select. With special emphasis on the principles of inclusion and accessibility, this new edition of Developing Library Collections includes guidelines for creating a young adult collection development policy, conducting a needs assessment, and evaluating and selecting print and nonprint material for the library’s YA collection.

Guides to Library Collection Development

Guides to Library Collection Development
Author: John Thomas Gillespie
Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
Total Pages: 464
Release: 1994-08-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Intended to enhance collection development in school, public, and college libraries, this volume lists and annotates approximately 1,500 significant bibliographies published from 1985 through 1993, with some earlier but still useful publications. Annotations indicate scope of the work, size (often the number of entries), kinds of material included, purpose, arrangement, nature of entries, indexes, special features, and a recommendation. Author, title, and subject indexes provide easy access to the entries. With its deep and comprehensive coverage, this work will help not only in the process of selecting and acquiring materials for the library but also in the process of identification of items for reference, readers' advisory, interlibrary loan, and collection evaluation.

Video Collection Development in Multi-type Libraries

Video Collection Development in Multi-type Libraries
Author: Gary Handman
Publisher: Greenwood
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1994
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Describes resources, policies, concepts and issues central to the practice of building and managing video collections in public, academic, school and special libraries. The impact, role and uses of video are also discussed and extensive listings of video resources are included.

Librarian's Guide to Games and Gamers

Librarian's Guide to Games and Gamers
Author: Michelle Goodridge
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2021-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1440867321

Helps librarians who are not themselves seasoned gamers to better understand the plethora of gaming products available and how they might appeal to library users. As games grow ever-more ubiquitous in our culture and communities, they have become popular staples in public library collections and are increasing in prominence in academic ones. Many librarians, especially those who are not themselves gamers or are only acquainted with a handful of games, are ill-prepared to successfully advise patrons who use games. This book provides the tools to help adult and youth services librarians to better understand the gaming landscape and better serve gamers in discovery of new games—whether they are new to gaming or seasoned players—through advisory services. This book maps all types of games—board, roleplaying, digital, and virtual reality—providing all the information needed to understand and appropriately recommend games to library users. Organized by game type, hundreds of descriptions offer not only bibliographic information (title, publication date, series, and format/platform), but genre classifications, target age ranges for players, notes on gameplay and user behavior type, and short descriptions of the game's basic premise and appeals.

Developing Library and Information Center Collections

Developing Library and Information Center Collections
Author: G. Edward Evans
Publisher:
Total Pages: 584
Release: 1995
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN:

Emphasising collection development in general rather than the process in any particular institutional setting, this text provides a thorough discussion of information needs assessment, policies of collection development and the collection process itself.

Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives

Digital Library Programs for Libraries and Archives
Author: Aaron D. Purcell
Publisher: American Library Association
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2016-08-26
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0838914586

Planning and managing a self-contained digitization project is one thing, but how do you transition to a digital library program? Or better yet, how do you start a program from scratch? In this book Purcell, a well-respected expert in both archives and digital libraries, combines theory and best practices with practical application, showing how to approach digital projects as an ongoing effort. He not only guides librarians and archivists in transitioning from project-level initiatives to a sustainable program but also provides clear step-by-step instructions for building a digital library program from the bottom up, even for organizations with limited staff. Approachable and easy to follow, this book traces the historical growth of digital libraries and the importance of those digital foundations; summarizes current technological challenges that affect the planning of digital libraries, and how librarians and archivists are adapting to the changing information landscape; uses examples to lay out the core priorities of leading successful digital programs; covers the essentials of getting started, from vision and mission building to identifying resources and partnerships; emphasizes the importance of digitizing original unique materials found in library and archives collections, and suggests approaches to the selection process; addresses metadata and key technical standards; discusses management and daily operations, including assessment, enhancement, sustainability, and long-term preservation planning; provides guidance for marketing, promotion, and outreach, plus how to take into account such considerations as access points, intended audiences, and educational and instructional components; and includes exercises designed to help readers define their own digital projects and create a real-world digital program plan. Equally valuable for LIS students just learning about the digital landscape, information professionals taking their first steps to create digital content, and organizations who already have well-established digital credentials, Purcell's book outlines methods applicable and scalable to many different types and sizes of libraries and archives.

Multimedia Information Resources

Multimedia Information Resources
Author: Paul Terence McNally
Publisher: Macmillan Education AU
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1997
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9780732940805

Provides practical guidelines for librarians and educators for developing, organising and managing a multimedia collection.

A.V. in Public and School Libraries

A.V. in Public and School Libraries
Author: Margaret J. Hughes
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1994
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9781560244615

Learn the right questions to ask when considering the creation, maintenance, and policy needs of the A.V. collection! A.V. in Public and School Libraries guides librarians through the development of an A.V. policy by addressing special aspects of A.V. in the 90s such as censorship, cataloging, costs, and acquisition policy dilemmas. Audio-visual material use is soaring in the public and school library environment, yet some video collections are being developed haphazardly as libraries select new materials based on policy statements written for print materials. The staff of any library that is starting or adding to an A.V. collection will benefit from this insightful overview of the video collection that addresses future trends, patron use patterns, collection development tools, and development of written policies. Some of the special issues concerning the A.V. collection addressed in this book include: charging fees for borrowing videos censorship issues--should children have access to R and NC--17 rated videos? video collections in a small public library collections of audio books teaching youth how to judge A.V. information critically recommended videos for establishing a children's video collection how secondary school students can benefit from A.V. instructional media Video acquisitions librarians, A.V. librarians, and librarians in small- and medium-sized libraries who are responsible for policymaking regarding the video collection will benefit from this practical advice on developing basic collections, creating collection tools, copyright issues, and decisions based on quality versus popularity of materials. A.V. in Public and School Libraries helps all librarians address the audio-visual needs of younger patrons in the school library media collection and the public library environment.