Collection Management for the 21st Century A Handbook for Librarians

Subjects:

• Library & Information Science » Acquisitions & Collection
• Library & Information Science » Acquisitions & Collection

Reviews:

• [W]ritten by a well-known cadre of librarians, library administrators, and library science professionals, these essays are thorough, thoughtful, and well researched. A convenient resource for practicing librarians, this handbook has a wonderful potential as a textbook...Recommended for purchase....
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  Library Journal
• This is a useful book, which contains information that will be of value to all collection management practitioners...
  —The Serials Librarian
• ...[P]rovides a comprehensive overview of the development of collection management....[S]erves as a valuable staring point for introducing the multiplicity of important issues of the field.
  —Technical Services Quarterly
• This is a well-organized handbook that accomplishes the editors' intent to "serve as a benchmark for future thinking in collection management." Eighteen leading authors offer a full range of relevant topics....[W]ith the results a forward-looking, significant work that encompasses the major trends and challenges for the profession....Many texts in collection development focus on the basics and this worthy addition to the literature considers in depth collection management issues for the future....[H]ighly recommended and most useful for librarians in academic settings.
  —Technicalities
• Gorman and Miller have produced an excellent forum for discussion of the issues related to the future of collection development and management....If you are seeking answers to collection management problems to come, this is not the book for you. If you are seeking a clear statement of the questions to be faced and some discussion of potential solutions, this is it!
  —Collection Management

Table of Contents:

• Introduction by G.E. Gorman
• The Future for Collection Management
• Collection Development and Scholarly Communication in the 21st Century: From Collection Management to Content Management by John M. Budd and Bart M. Harloe
• The Technological Contribution to Collection Management
• The Internet and Collection Management in Academic Libraries: Opportunities and Challenges by Thomas E. Nisonger
• Collection Management and Integrated Library Systems by Mary F. Cassery and Anne C. Ciliberti
• Selection of Materials in an Electronic Environment
• Collection Development Policies and Electronic Information Resources by Peggy Johnson
• The Role of Selection in Collection Development: Past, Present and Future by William S. Monroe
• Future Practices in Collection Evaluation
• Collection Development and Performance Measurement by Philip Calvert
• Integrating the Activities of Librarians and Paraprofessional Workers in Evaluating Academic Library Collections by Sheila S. Intner
• Electronic Document Delivery and Resource Preservation
• Electronic Document Delivery Services and Their Impact on Collection Management by Graham P. Cornish
• The Preservation of Electronic Records: What Do We Do Next? by Ross Harvey
• Organization and Budgeting for Collection Management
• Staffing and Organization for Collection Development in a New Century by Bonita Bryant
• Budgeting for Information Resources: Current Trends and Future Directions by William Fisher and Barbara G. Leonard
• Cooperative Collection Development and Management
• The Axioms, Barriers and Components of Cooperative Collection Development by Richard J. Wood
• Cooperation is the Future of Collection Management and Development: OhioLINK and CIC by Gay N. Dannelly
• Cooperative Collection Development: Compelling Theory, Inconseqential Results? by Dan C. Hazen
• The Recent Literature
• Selected Review of the Literature on Collection Development and Collection Management, 1990-1995 by Ruth H. Miller
• Index