Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (Fundamentals Series) - Softcover

Johnson, Peggy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838909728 ISBN 13: 9780838909720

Publisher: ALA Editions, 2009

Synopsis

In this fully updated revision, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson addresses the art in controlling and updating your library's collection. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development, including suggestions for further reading and a narrative case study exploring the issue. Johnson also integrates electronic resources throughout the topics of organization and staffing; policymaking and budgeting; and, purchasing and wedding.Johnson offers a comprehensive tour of this essential discipline and situates the fundamental ideas of collection development and management in historical and theoretical perspective, bringing this modern classic fully up to date.

About this title

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.

From Booklist:

In recent years, books about electronic resources have greatly outnumbered those covering collection development. Fortunately, Johnson has answered this shortcoming. In nine chapters, she covers the entire field of collection development, from its history to collection analysis to marketing. She succinctly discusses ways to organize and staff for selection, how to write collection plans and budgets, how to manage collections, and how to set up cooperative collection plans with other libraries. The book closes with an appendix listing selection aids, a glossary, and an index of names and subjects. Invaluable to library students and beginning librarians, this book also has helpful ideas and information for even seasoned collections librarians. RBB
Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved

About this edition

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0838909728
• ISBN 13: 9780838909720
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 424