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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779460503321

Titolo

Collection development policies : new directions for changing collections / / Daniel C. Mack, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Binghamton, N.Y. : , : Haworth Information Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-79695-9

0-429-23884-3

0-203-82683-3

1-283-88617-0

1-136-79696-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (183 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MackDaniel C

Disciplina

025.2/1

Soggetti

Collection development (Libraries)

Academic libraries - Collection development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Co-published simultaneously as The acquisitions librarian, number 30, 2003."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Changing collections, changing policies / Daniel C. Mack -- Pricing and acquisitions policies for electronic resources: is the market stable enough to establish local standards? / Rebecca S. Albitz -- Subject-specific policy statements: a rationale and framework for collection development / Glenn S. McGuigan, Gary W. White -- The end of an American (library) dream: the rise and decline of the collection development policy statement at Berkeley / James H. Spohrer -- Using a collection development curriculum as a model for developing policy documents in practice / Sheila S. Intner -- Collection development at SJU Libraries: compromises, missions, and transitions / Lois Cherepon, Andrew Sankowski -- Collection management statements on the world wide web / Joseph Straw -- Acquisitions policy for contemporary topics in an academic library: managing the ephemeral / Ashley Robinson -- Impact of technical services' policies on access and collection development / Magda El-Sherbini -- Nicholson Baker wasn't all wrong: a collection development policy for remote storage facilities / Elka Tenner Shlomo -- Collection development: curriculum materials center



/ Justina O. Osa -- Cooperation between collection development and cataloging: a policy for proposing projects to cataloging services / Rebecca L. Mugridge.

Sommario/riassunto

Get the tools you need to build a collection development policy that will help your library run efficiently?today and in the future!  Considering the amount and variety of topics being published, effectively organizing and guiding a library in today's accelerated world is no easy task. Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collections is the contemporary librarians guide to building or revising a first-rate collection development policy. In this up-to-date book, experts in the field take you step-by-step through the publishing process from writing an initial draf