For the fourth edition expert instructor and librarian Johnson has revised and freshened this resource to ensure its timeliness and continued excellence. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development and management, including numerous suggestions for further reading and narrative case studies exploring the issues.
Technical Services Quarterly declared that the third edition ‘must now be considered the essential textbook for collection development and management…the first place to go for reliable and informative advice.’ For the fourth edition expert instructor and librarian Johnson has revised and freshened this resource to ensure its timeliness and continued excellence. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development and management, including numerous suggestions for further reading and narrative case studies exploring the issues. Thorough consideration is given to:
- traditional management topics such as organization of the collection, weeding, staffing, and policy making
- cooperative collection development and management
- licenses, negotiation, contracts, maintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers, and other important purchasing and budgeting topics
- important issues such as the ways that changes in information delivery and access technologies continue to reshape the discipline, the evolving needs and expectations of library users, and new roles for subject specialists, all illustrated using updated examples and data
- marketing, liaison activities, and outreach.
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This fourth edition will therefore undoubtedly find its way to library training...Even for those who already work in libraries, there is still a lot of valuable information to be found in the individual chapters.- InformatieProfessional (Dutch journal) * InformatieProfessional *
List of Figures
Preface to the Fourth Edition
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction to Collection Development and Management
Components of Collection Development and Management
Historical Overview
Theories of Selection
Future of Collection Development and Management
Notes
Suggested Readings
2 Organizational Models, Staffing, and Responsibilities
Collection Management and Development Responsibilities
Assignment of Responsibilities
Skills and Competencies
Learning after School
Organizational Models
Ethical Issues
Notes
Suggested Readings
3 Planning, Policy, and Budgets
Planning in Libraries
Planning Models
Environmental Scanning
Why Undertake Formal Planning?
Collection Development Policy Statements
Writing the Collection Development Policy Statement
Budgeting and Finance
Notes
Suggested Readings
4 Developing Collections
Universe of Published Materials
The Selection Process
Notes
Suggested Readings
5 Vendor Relations, Negotiation, and Contracts
Overview
Vendor Relations
Negotiation
Contracts
Notes
Suggested Readings
6 Managing Collections
Weeding
Storage
Preservation and Conservation
Review and Cancellation of Continuing Resources
Collection Protection and Security
Notes
Suggested Readings
7 Marketing, Liaison Activities, and Outreach
Understanding Marketing
Marketing Concepts
Managing the Marketing Cycle
Liaison and Outreach Activities
Social Media
Notes
Suggested Readings
8 Collection Analysis, Accountability, and Demonstrating Value
Collection Analysis as a Management Tool
Historical Overview of Collection Analysis
Approaches to Collection Analysis
Electronic Resources and Collection Analysis
Methods of Collection-Based Analysis
Methods of Use- and User-Centered Analysis
Cost-Benefit Analysis, Social Return on Investment, and Balanced Scorecards
Conducting the Analysis and Preparing a Collection Analysis Report
Notes
Suggested Readings
9 Collaborative Collection Development and Management
Overview
Resource Sharing
Bibliographic Access
Coordinated or Collaborative Collection Building and Management
Infrastructures for Cooperative and Collaborative Collection Development and
Management
Attributes of Successful Consortia
Challenges to Collaborative Collection Development and Management
Evaluating Collaborative and Cooperative Collection Development and
Management
Notes
Suggested Readings
Appendix A Professional Resources for Collection Development and Management
Appendix B Selection Aids
Glossary
Index
Peggy Johnson has published several books, including ALA Editions Developing and Managing Electronic Collections: The Essentials, edited the peer-reviewed journal Library Resources & Technical Services for more than nine years and continues to edit Technicalities: Information Forum for the Technical Services Professional. She teaches as an adjunct professor in the MLIS program at St. Catherine University and received the ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
