Acquisitions & collection development books

Academic libraries need approaches to diversity, equity, and inclusion that position these priorities as ongoing...  Read More >>

Provides evidence-based practice guidelines for librarians and educators. To optimize results, the projects in this...  Read More >>

The scholarly interests of Scots in the Restoration period are analysed by Murray Simpson through an in-depth study...  Read More >>

Despite being core library users, millennials and other younger...  Read More >>

Provides librarians and those studying to enter the profession with tools to grapple with their own implication...  Read More >>

With a renewed emphasis on facilitating learning, supporting multiple literacies, and advancing equity and inclusion,...  Read More >>

Addresses new methods, practices, concepts, and techniques, as well as contemporary challenges and issues for libraries...  Read More >>

This unique guide offers fresh insights on how graphic novels and comics differ from traditional books and require...  Read More >>

"Covering more than 500 titles, both classics and newer publications, this book describes what titles are about...  Read More >>

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The unique challenges of developing and managing a graphics novels collection have led the Association of Library...  Read More >>

This valuable guide advises teachers and librarians how to use novels in verse in functional, hands-on ways with...  Read More >>

With a dual focus on access and diversity, this book includes timely and necessary guidance for librarians seeking...  Read More >>

With a dual focus on access and diversity, this book includes timely and necessary guidance for librarians seeking...  Read More >>

First published in 1992, this volume recognises that it is not unusual, when practising librarianship, to come across...  Read More >>

The goal of exposing cultural institutions' records to the web is as important as ever-but for the non-technically...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1986, is a comprehensive review of American library cooperative development programs...  Read More >>

Libraries in Australia and New Zealand struggle with the problems of a print-oriented publishing industry dominated...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1992, establishes a theoretical base for access services while also suggesting connections...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1989, discusses the maintenance of a quality collection within a budget while still...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1991, deals with the demanding problems of smaller acquisitions budgets.It takes an...  Read More >>

In this book, first published in 1989, practicing librarians share their hands-on experience with implementing various...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1999, discusses the specifics of budgeting for the unpredictable pricing of electronic...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 1996, explores the role of libraries in acquiring, storing, and disseminating information...  Read More >>

This book, first published in 2002, examines how the transition to electronic resources in academic libraries has...  Read More >>