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Author(s): John Kennedy (Auth.)
ISBN(s): 9781876938130, 1876938137
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Year: 2006
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ISBN 10: 1876938137 
ISBN 13: 9781876938130
Author: John Kennedy

The rapidly increasing reliance on digital rather than print-based resources has not diminished the importance of library collection management, but it has required significant modification in the thinking and the practice of collection managers, who today usually have to consider their clients’ need for both print-based and digital materials. This updated edition aims to provide a concise overview of the major elements of contemporary collection management of print and digital resources – including policy formulation, selection, acquisition, evaluation, preservation, deselection, and cooperative collecting – in a way which aims to be of interest to the student and to any other reader seeking an understanding of a particularly dynamic area of librarianship.

Much that has been previously published on collection management focuses on academic libraries, particularly those in North America. This book places greater emphasis on the experiences of smaller public and special libraries, and attempts to view its subject from the perspective of libraries in Australia and other countries geographically remote from North America and Western Europe. Dr John Kennedy has taught collection management at Charles Sturt University for over a decade and has produced several previous publications on the subject.

Collection Management A Concise Introduction 1st Table of contents:

Chapter 1: The Changing Collection Management Environment

  • What is collection management?

  • Collection development and collection management

  • Is collection management still needed?

  • References

Chapter 2: Formulating Policy – The Written Collection Development Policy and Alternative Approaches

  • What is a collection development policy?

  • Why have a collection development policy?

  • Difficulties and drawbacks

  • What should a collection development policy contain?

  • A separate collection development policy for digital resources?

  • Creating the collection development policy

  • Alternatives to a collection development policy

  • References

Chapter 3: Selection of Hardcopy and Digital Materials

  • What is selection?

  • Aids to selection

  • Selection criteria

  • Alternatives to library selection

  • References

Chapter 4: Acquisitions and Licensing

  • Status of acquisitions

  • What does acquisitions work involve?

  • Gifts and exchanges

  • Outsourcing acquisitions

  • The changing acquisitions environment

  • References

Chapter 5: Evaluating the Hardcopy and Digital Collection

  • What is collection evaluation?

  • Why evaluate the collection?

  • Evaluating digital collections

  • Australian Conspectus

  • References

Chapter 6: Preservation and Deselection

  • Introduction

  • Preservation in libraries

  • The preservation challenge and print

  • The response

  • Preservation of audiovisual materials

  • Preservation of digital materials

  • Why resist deselection?

  • Criteria and methods for deselection

  • Serial cancellation exercises

  • Disposal of deselected material

  • Deselecting electronic materials

  • References

Chapter 7: Cooperation in Collection Management

  • Introduction

  • Reasons for cooperating

  • Barriers to successful cooperation

  • The Distributed National Collection in Australia

  • Cooperative collection management and digital resources

  • Open access and institutional repositories

  • References

Chapter 8: The Future of Collection Management

  • References

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