Preservation Program Blueprint (Frontiers of Access to Library Materials, 6) - Softcover

Higginbotham, Barbra Buckner; Wild, Judith W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838908020 ISBN 13: 9780838908020

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2001

Synopsis

A complete guide to developing a library-wide preservation program, The Preservation Program Blueprint will help you to map out a system that is both preventative and curative. Placing the responsibilities of preservation on every staff member in each department, Higginbotham and Wild assert that by decentralizing preservation activities and integrating them into ongoing library functions, you will preserve materials effectively, efficiently, and with buy-in from staff. Apply their proven strategies to: * Create an "around-the-building" approach to preservation. * Implement preventative "on-the-job" techniques. * Identify "who-does-what" following the functional listing in the table of contents. Libraries of all types and sizes cannot afford to not involve all library staff in the preservation process. The new Blueprint shows you how to preserve materials in your collection by bringing all of the resources in your library to bear.

About this title

About the Author

Barbra Higginbotham, Ph.D., is the director of the Brooklyn College Library at the City University of New York where she also serves as the Executive Director of Academic Information Technologies and teaches in the English Department. She holds master's and doctoral degrees in library science from Columbia University. Judith W. Wild is head of Technical Services at the Brooklyn College Library, CUNY. She serves on the library policy-making body, and during her tenure at Brooklyn, has taught at the Queens College and Pratt Institute graduate library schools. She earned a master's degree and specialist degree in Educational Technology from Indiana University, and a master's in library science from Columbia University.

Review

"This book serves as a reminder that collections are central to a library's existence, mission, and purpose. Highly recommended for small to middle-sized libraries that sense a need for increased stewardship of their collections."

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0838908020
• ISBN 13: 9780838908020
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 151