Making a Collection Count: A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management (Chandos Information Professional Series) - Softcover

Hibner, Holly; Kelly, Mary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843346060 ISBN 13: 9781843346067

Publisher: Chandos Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection’s life cycle. Relationships between collections and other library services, such as reference, programming, and technology, are also explored. The result is a quality collection that is clean, current, relevant, and useful, and which connects and highlights various library services.

• Offers practical applications for collection librarians and managers who are practitioners in the field. It is more than just a theoretical discussion of collection quality and collection management because useful, realistic advice is offered
• This is not a book about collection development. It is unique in that the focus is on collection quality: making the most of a library collection budget, performing physical inventory, and gathering/using data and statistics about collections
• Broad, international appeal to various library types: public, academic, school, and special

About this title

About the Authors

Holly Hibner received an MLIS from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan in 1999. She is the Adult Services Coordinator at the Plymouth District Library in Plymouth, Michigan.

Mary Kelly received an MLIS from Wayne State University in 2002, and also has an MBA from Wayne State. Mary is an Adult Services Librarian at the Plymouth District Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: Chandos Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1843346060
• ISBN 13: 9781843346067
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190