Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management - Softcover

Johnson, Peggy; Weber, Mary Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1783307471 ISBN 13: 9781783307470

Verlag: Facet Publishing, 2025

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LIS students and practitioners alike will find this top-to-bottom guide to collection development and management a must-have resource at every stage of their career.

This benchmark text serves as the perfect guide for beginners and a quick reference tool for seasoned professionals. For the new fifth edition, expert instructor and librarian Johnson is joined by technical services expert Weber. Complete with refreshed case studies exploring the issues and suggestions for further reading, each chapter provides in-depth coverage of one aspect of collection development and management. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of

• traditional management topics such as organization of the collection, staffing, planning, and policymaking;
• the continuing relevance and importance of the discipline in an increasingly digital environment;
• Open Access, the Big Ten Open Books collection, and moving toward a digital library ownership model;
• e-book lending, including purchasing models (PDA, DDA, EBA) and controlled digital lending;
• collaborative collection development and management;
• licenses, negotiation, contracts, maintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers, and other important purchasing and budgeting topics;
• self-published books and their path into library collections;
• collection analysis and weeding, including both print and e-resources;
• timely issues such as the ways in which collecting practices have changed post-pandemic, the evolving needs and expectations of library users, diversity in library collections, and ensuring accessibility, all illustrated using updated examples and data; and
• marketing, liaison activities, and outreach, through coverage expanded for this edition.

This fifth edition will be useful as a comprehensive introduction and learning tool for LIS students, a timely update for experienced librarians with new collection development and management responsibilities, and a handy reference resource for practitioners as they go about their day-to-day work.

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Peggy Johnson began her library career as a music cataloguer and has been a children's librarian in a public library, and serials cataloguer, technical services head, and a senior collection development officer in academic libraries. In 2002, she served as interim university librarian at the University of Minnesota. Johnson has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, Morocco, and China. She is a frequent speaker and consultant on collection development and management and on change in libraries, two areas of particular interest. She edits the journal Technicalities: Information Forum for the Library Services Practitioner, has published numerous papers, and written and edited several books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Facet Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1783307471
• ISBN 13: 9781783307470
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 5
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland