Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series) - Softcover

Saponaro, Margaret Zarnosky; Evans, G. Edward

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1440859647 ISBN 13: 9781440859649

Publisher: Libraries Unlimited, 2019

Synopsis

If the heart of the library is its collection, this textbook provides the keys to the heart of your library. Alongside standards of basic principles and processes, you'll find practical guidance on everything from acquisitions to preservation.

Managing collections in today's libraries is more complicated and challenging than ever. Electronic formats, new options for collaboration and sharing, and the drive to use data for evaluation purposes are just a few of the changes now driving collection management.

This updated edition of a classic text addresses changes in the field and provides a thorough overview of what collection development specialists now need to know to effectively and efficiently manage processes that range from selection and assessment to sharing resources, handling challenges, weeding, and preservation. Readers will find increased coverage of technical services, intellectual freedom and censorship, and collection policy development, as well as budget development and tracking, joint purchasing, and negotiating with vendors. Updates on e-resources, user needs assessment (including data visualization), and disaster management, along with suggestions for further reading, are also included.

Engagingly written and easy to understand, this is a valuable text for students preparing for careers in public, academic, school, and special libraries. It will additionally serve as a training resource and professional refresher for practitioners.

About this title

About the Authors

Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro, MLS, is Director of Collection Development Strategies at the University of Maryland Libraries (UMD), USA, where she provides leadership for the collections and manages the collections budget. Her prior work experience includes serving as Manager of Staff Learning and Development, and later Librarian for the College of Journalism at UMD, as Associate Director of Learning Resources at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, and as Librarian for the Northern Virginia Center of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research interests are in the areas of collection management, instruction, and emerging technologies in libraries.

G. Edward Evans, PhD, is a retired award-winning author and Fulbright Scholar. He holds several graduate degrees in anthropology and library and information science. As a researcher, he has published in both anthropology and LIS and held a Fulbright Fellowship and a National Science Foundation Fellowship. His teaching experience has also been in both fields in the United States and the Nordic countries, in particular at the Graduate School of Librarianship and Information Science at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Edition details

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1440859647
• ISBN 13: 9781440859649
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392