Overview

This collection of thought-provoking essays by visionary and innovative library practitioners covers theory, research, and best practices in collection development, examining how it has evolved, identifying how some librarians are creatively responding to these changes, and predicting what is coming next. Rethinking Collection Development and Management adds a new and important perspective to the literature on collection development and management for 21st-century library professionals. The work reveals how dramatically collection development is changing, and has already changed; supplies practical suggestions on how librarians might respond to these advancements; and reflects on what librarians can expect in the future. This volume is a perfect complement for textbooks that take a more traditional approach, offering a broad, forward-thinking perspective that will benefit students in graduate LIS programs and guide practitioners, collection development officers, and directors in public and academic libraries. A chapter on collection development and management in the MLIS curriculum makes this volume especially pertinent to library and information science educators.

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Author:   Becky Albitz ,  Christine Avery ,  Diane Zabel
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Libraries Unlimited Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.737kg
ISBN:  

9781610693059

ISBN 10:   1610693051
Pages:   408
Publication Date:   25 February 2014
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT Chapter 1: Forces Shaping Scholarly Publishing Robert W. Boissy Chapter 2: The Ghosts in the Stacks: Collection Development Practice Past, Present, and Future in Academic Research Libraries Mark Sandler Chapter 3: Who Does What? Building Relationships between Technical and Public Services Staff Laurel Tarulli Chapter 4: Evaluating Subscription Databases Nadine P. Ellero and Juliet T. Rumble Chapter 5: Perspectives on Weeding in Academic Library Collections David A. Tyckoson Chapter 6: Weeding the Collection: Perspectives from Three Public Librarians Merle Jacob, Sue O'Brien, and Bonnie Reid Chapter 7: Education for Collection Development and Management John M. Budd PART II: ACQUISITIONS Chapter 8: Demand-Driven Acquisitions: Just in Time Robert Alan Chapter 9: HAM: A Hybrid Acquisitions Model for Public Libraries Sian Brannon Chapter 10: Beyond Reviews: Understanding the Selection Cycle in Public Library Collection Development Neal Wyatt Chapter 11: The Big Deal and the Future of Journal Licensing in Academic Libraries Jeffrey D. Carroll Chapter 12: Collection Development between Teaching Mission and Resource Management: The Case of Carleton College Kathy Tezla and Victoria Morse Chapter 13: Lease Plans in Academic Libraries Anne Behler Chapter 14: Lease Services as a Collection Development Strategy Kathleen Sullivan Chapter 15: Self-Publishing: Does It Belong in the Collection? James LaRue Chapter 16: eBooks in Academic Libraries Michael Levine-Clark Chapter 17: eBook Collection Development in Public Libraries Christopher Baker Chapter 18: Streaming Video deg farrelly PART III: ACCESS, COOPERATIVE EFFORTS, SHARED COLLECTIONS Chapter 19: Cataloging for Collection Management Linda R. Musser and Christopher H. Walker Chapter 20: Do We Need Dewey? Anythink Libraries in Colorado Logan Macdonald Chapter 21: Rethinking Access to Collections in the Discovery Age Jody Condit Fagan and Meris A. Mandernach Chapter 22: Consortia Services in Collection Management Kim Armstrong Chapter 23: Floating Collections: Perspectives from an Academic Library Karen E. Greever Chapter 24: Floating Collections: Perspectives from a Public Librarian Wendy Bartlett Chapter 25: Beyond My People and Thy People, or the Shared Print Collections Imperative Robert H. Kieft PART IV: PRESERVATION AND SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Chapter 26: Thinking about Collection Development in Special Collections Steven K. Galbraith Chapter 27: Collaborative Disaster Networks Thomas F. R. Clareson Chapter 28: Digitization Projects L. Suzanne Kellerman Chapter 29: Print and Digital Preservation Jacob Nadal Epilogue Index About the Editors and the Contributors

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This title is a perfect fit for both public and academic librarians. The work 'rethinking' is apt; this guide truly examines current changes in library collections. New librarians will want to dive into the volume ... Experienced librarians might skip around, using the book as a reference for pertinent topics, such as ebooks and digital collections... It is a solid companion to any of the American Library Association fundamentals of collection development books. The textbook-style reading is ideal for academic librarians, public librarians, or MLS students. - School Library Journal What makes this book of considerable merit is it moves past providing mainly foundational concepts and traditional topics. Instead, much of the book focuses on advanced theory and its practical application in the field... [P]rofessionals in these positions may find this book beneficial as it discusses technological innovation and electronic collections... Out of the few collection development texts available, this book is highly recommended. - Journal of Academic Librarianship

This title is a perfect fit for both public and academic librarians. The word 'rethinking' is apt; this guide truly examines current changes in library collections. New librarians will want to dive into the volume ... Experienced librarians might skip around, using the book as a reference for pertinent topics, such as ebooks and digital collections... It is a solid companion to any of the American Library Association fundamentals of collection development books. The textbook-style reading is ideal for academic librarians, public librarians, or MLS students. - School Library Journal What makes this book of considerable merit is it moves past providing mainly foundational concepts and traditional topics. Instead, much of the book focuses on advanced theory and its practical application in the field... [P]rofessionals in these positions may find this book beneficial as it discusses technological innovation and electronic collections... Out of the few collection development texts available, this book is highly recommended. - Journal of Academic Librarianship

This title is a perfect fit for both public and academic librarians. The word 'rethinking' is apt; this guide truly examines current changes in library collections. New librarians will want to dive into the volume ... Experienced librarians might skip around, using the book as a reference for pertinent topics, such as ebooks and digital collections... It is a solid companion to any of the American Library Association fundamentals of collection development books. The textbook-style reading is ideal for academic librarians, public librarians, or MLS students. - School Library Journal What makes this book of considerable merit is it moves past providing mainly foundational concepts and traditional topics. Instead, much of the book focuses on advanced theory and its practical application in the field... [P]rofessionals in these positions may find this book beneficial as it discusses technological innovation and electronic collections... Out of the few collection development texts available, this book is highly recommended. - Journal of Academic Librarianship This collection is inspiring... In Rethinking Collection Development and Management, librarians and administrators will find creative ideas and thoughtful approaches to the many challenges of twenty-first century collection development. - Libraries and the Academy This is an interesting and ambitious book that provides a good picture of the many changes taking place in collection development and management. It willbe useful to those interested in lookingat the current state of particular areas of collections work, as well as someonetrying to understand what is happeningto the field generally. It should proveuseful to practicing librarians in bothacademic and public libraries and tostudents in library school who want an overview of the area... [T]he book serves as a noteworthy attempt to document numerous changes occurring in the field and anyone who is interested in collections will find it worth reading. - Technicalities Rethinking Collection Development and Management seeks to cover a lot of ground, and the chapters range from editorial to prescriptive in tone. The unifying thread, however, is the described subjective experiences. Indeed, as an anthology this is not unusual, and the stand-alone quality of each chapter lends the text the supplementary facility advertised. While articles of comparable tone and quality are frequently published in the professional literature, this volume juxtaposes the perspective of the public librarian alongside that of the academic and that of one working in a large research university alongside the small liberal arts college. In this way the reader is given the opportunity to rethink, as it were, his or her own experience of collection development and management in the larger context of an evolving field. - Library Resources and Technical Services

Author Information

Becky Albitz, MLS, EdD, is director of the James A. Cannavino Library at Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY. Christine Avery is visiting collection development program officer for the Association of Research Libraries. Diane Zabel is the Louis and Virginia Benzak Business Librarian at Pennsylvania State University and editor of Libraries Unlimited's Reference Reborn: Breathing New Life into Public Services Librarianship.

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