Developing Library and Information Center Collections

Price: $60.00
ISBN13: 9781591582182
ISBN10: 1591582180
Book code: LU2180
Libraries Unlimited
Hardcover | 472 pages
Publication Date: 09/30/2005
Series: Library and Information Science Text Series

DESCRIPTION

This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development?from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice), to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, censorship, and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies. To this end, some chapters?electronic materials, government information, audiovisual materials, and resource sharing?have been almost completely rewritten. In addition, electronic serials, introduced in the 4th edition, has been combined with its print counterpart in a single chapter. New to this edition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site () will also be maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up to date. As the authors put it in their introductory chapter, whatever environment one works in, collection development is an exciting challenge that requires lifelong learning. Students and practitioners alike will benefit greatly from this state-of-the-art text.

This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development. A new addition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site () will also be maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up-to-date.

CONTENTS

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Preface to the Fifth Edition

Information Age: Information Society

Information Needs Assessment

Collection Development Policies

Selection Process in Practice

Producers of Information Materials

Series: Print and Electronic

Other Electronic Materials

Government Information

Audiovisual Materials

Acquisitions

Distributors and Vendors

Fiscal Management

Deselection

Evaluation

Resource Sharing

Protectingg the Collection

Legal Issues

Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and Collection Development

Index