Guide to Cooperative Collection Development (COLLECTION MANAGEMENT AND DEVELOPMENT GUIDES) - Softcover

American Library Association

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838934447 ISBN 13: 9780838934449

Publisher: ALA Editions, 1994

Synopsis

This work, based on the argument that the key to the successful future of libraries lies in cooperative collection development, provides the assistance libraries of all types and sizes need while planning, organising, staffing and evaluating cooperative collection development programmes.

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From Library Journal

Together these two books present an interesting package of information about cooperative collection development. Neither stands alone as a definitive work. Guide to Cooperative Collection Development follows the same model as other guides in this series; it is intended to give a solid introduction to the chosen topic. It succeeds, largely because it keeps to this purpose and provides a broad, coherent view of cooperative collection development by covering the principles, benefits, drawbacks, and types of cooperatives. It also includes a bibliography of essential sources, a brief glossary, and an appendix of existing cooperative projects. The ALA guide should be used as handbook and for ready reference. Cooperative Collection Development takes a different approach and contains articles reprinted from an issue of Collection Building that describe various cooperative approaches and methods. Editors Olson and Allen have compiled not a handbook but rather a collection of examples of some lesser-known methods and cooperative agreements. Most of the articles are case studies outlining the approaches used by a particular library or cooperative arrangement. The introductory article gives some advice on how to think about cooperative collection development but does not provide the kind of sweeping overview that Guide to Cooperative Collection Development does. In short, the ALA guide provides a good introduction to the topic, while the Olson/Allen book describes in some detail existing cooperative arrangements. Anyone doing serious research on cooperative collection development still needs to refer to the works listed in the bibliography of the ALA guide to cover the full scope of the subject.
Joyce L. Ogburn, Yale Univ. Lib., New Haven, Ct.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: ALA Editions
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0838934447
• ISBN 13: 9780838934449
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 35