Collection Development Policies and Procedures - Hardcover

Futas, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0897747976 ISBN 13: 9780897747974

Publisher: Greenwood, 1994

Synopsis

This volume will help you acquire and manage a strong collection for your library, even when budgets are being cut. Topics covered include purchasing materials, formulating selection criteria, sharing materials with other institutions, and evaluating and preserving materials. This edition by the late Elizabeth Futas begins with the results of the author's survey of academic and public libraries. The author then explains how a sharply focused and clearly articulated collections development policy can assist libraries in providing the best possible service in the most cost-effective manner. These and other ideas, practices, and policies in this new edition will allow libraries to continue meeting the needs of their particular constituents, even in uncertain economic times.

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About the Author

The late Elizabeth Futas, PhD, was a professor and director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island, Kingston. Over the past 27 years, she had acquired a wide range of teaching and library experience, having served as reference librarian, cataloguer, and bibliographer at a variety of academic and public libraries, in addition to holding professor and lecturer positions at several universities. Dr. Futas also provided consulting services for collection evaluation and policy formation. A former editor of the ALA SRRT Newsletter, she was the author or editor of numerous publications, including the first and second editions of Collection Development Prices and Procedures formerly titled Library Acquisitions Policies and Procedures, also published by Oryx Press.

Reviews

This is the third edition of Futas's well-known Library Acquisition Policies and Procedures, though the title has been updated to reflect the broader terminology of collection development. Four complete collection development policy statements are reprinted, along with excerpts from 61 others, covering missions, goals, objectives, fund allocation, selection policy, selection responsibility, collection levels, selection criteria, approval plans, gifts, legal issues, intellectual freedom, consortia, collection maintenance, and subjects and formats of material. A survey by Futas of 5000 public and academic libraries netted 357 replies from which the excerpts were selected. Of special interest in this edition is material on selection criteria for electronic resources and online services. Futas was a professor and director of the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Rhode Island, with nearly three decades of library and teaching experience. (Sadly, she died suddenly last month while attending the American Library Association Midwinter Meeting in Philadelphia). This would be a fine textbook for a collection development class, and it should also be studied by librarians actively engaged in collection development, particularly those who are revising or composing their policies.
Margaret Sylvia, St. Mary's Univ. Academic Lib., San Antonio
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenwood
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0897747976
• ISBN 13: 9780897747974
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Futas Elizabeth