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Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fifth Edition

Chapters One Through Five
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Chapter 1: Information Age, Information Society


COLLDV-L: Library Collection Development Discussion List
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The Digital Library: A Biography -- by D. Greenstein and S. E. Thorin. Council on Library and Information Resources, 2002.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html


Internet Public Library
http://www.ipl.org


Librarian’s Index to the Internet
http://www.lii.org


NetLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/


2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition
http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/


Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com


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Chapter 2: Information Needs Assessment


American Community Survey (ACS) -- From the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/


Community Analysis -- Information from William Robinson at UTK.
http://web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/560_lec_commun-analysis.html


Community Analysis for Libraries and Librarians
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/pathway/ca_homepage.html


Indiana Community Analysis Resources on the WWW
http://www.ibrc.indiana.edu/presentations/community_scan.html


Library Research Service: Community Analysis
http://www.lrs.org/asp_public/community.asp


Public Library Geographic Database
http://www.geolib.org/PLGDB.cfm


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Chapter 3: Collection Development Policies


AcqWeb’s Directory of Policies on the Web
http://www.acqweb.org/cd_policy.html


Electronic Collections Policies
http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/ecd.html


Library of Congress: Collection Development and the Internet
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html


U.S. National Library of Medicine: Collection Development Manual
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/acquisitions/cdm/


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Chapter 4: Selection Process in Practice


AcqWeb’s Directory of Book Reviews on the Web
http://www.acqweb.org/bookrev.html


BookPage
http://www.bookpage.com


Brodart TIPS -- Information on the Title Information Preview Service (TIPS).
http://www.books.brodart.com/services/tips.htm


ChoiceReviews.online -- From the American Library Association.
http://www.choicereviews.org


CM Magazine: Canadian Review of Materials -- From the Manitoba Library Association.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/


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Genrefluent -- "The world of genre fiction from the author of Genreflecting."
http://www.genrefluent.com


H-Net Reviews -- Reviews of scholarly materials in the arts and humanities.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews


Resource Links -- Website dedicated to "connecting classrooms, libraries and Canadian learning resources."
http://resourcelinks.ca/


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Chapter 5. Producers of Information Materials


Dustbooks -- Ordering information for Dustbooks publications, including the Small Press Record of Books in Print.
http://www.dustbooks.com


The Small Press Bookwatch -- From Midwest Book Review.
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/


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Contact the authors: G. Edward Evans and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro

Last Updated: May 2005