This essential guide to customer-based/patron-driven collection
development will allow librarians to navigate the rapid changes in
what users expect of libraries. The traditional "top down" approach
to collection development definitely has its drawbacks: even after
spending a good deal of time, energy, and resources, librarians are
sometimes frustrated to find that their library's collection is not
being used as they anticipated. But there's another strategy that's
gaining momentum. This book gathers together the best practitioners
in the emerging field of customer-based collection development to
find out what library users need and want and provide strategies to
allow librarians to manage collections accordingly. Drawing on the
experiences of professionals from a variety of academic and public
libraries, Customer-based Collection Development: Offers strategies
for planning and implementing a customer-based collection program
Summarizes its potential impact on a library's budget Discusses
cataloguing implications, and other day-to-day operational issues
Presents guidelines for evaluating and marketing. Customer-based
Collection Development is one way for libraries to navigate the
rapid changes in what users expect of libraries, and this new
anthology is an important guide to this approach.
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