Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management / Edition 4

by Peggy Johnson

Overview

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 policymaking;

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; and

marketing, liaison activities, and outreach.

As a comprehensive introduction for LIS students, a primer for experienced librarians with new collection development and management responsibilities, and a handy reference resource for practitioners as they go about their day-to-day work, the value and usefulness of this book remain unequaled.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780838916414
Publisher:	American Library Association
Publication date:	01/16/2018
Edition description:	Fourth Edition
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Peggy Johnson began her library career as a music cataloger and has been a children's librarian in a public library, and serials cataloger, technical services head, and a senior collection development officer in academic libraries. In 2002, she served as interim university librarian at the University of Minnesota. Johnson has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, Morocco, and China. She is a frequent speaker and consultant on collection development and management and on change in libraries, two areas of particular interest. She edits the journal Technicalities: Information Forum for the Library Services Practitioner, has published numerous papers, and written and edited several books.

Table of Contents

	Figures	v
	Acknowledgments	vii
	Preface	ix
1	Introduction to Collection Management and Development	1
2	Organization and Staffing	32
3	Policy, Planning, and Budgets	65
4	Developing Collections	101
5	Managing Collections	138
6	Marketing, Liaison, and Outreach Activities	172
7	Electronic Resources	199
8	Cooperative Collection Development and Management	235
9	Collection Analysis: Evaluation and Assessment	268
Appendix	Selection Aids	299
	Glossary	307
	Index	327