Get the tools you need to build a collection development policy
that will help your library run efficientlytoday 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
draft to applying the official copy. Find out what did and did not
work in their own practices and get the tools you'll need to tackle
any obstacles you may encounter. Collection Development Policies:
New Directions for Changing Collection covers a variety of
topicsincluding pricing policies and remote storage
facilitieswithout leaving out the traditional concerns of space and
funding. This valuable book also addresses the needs of specialized
collections with information on acquisition policies for
contemporary subjects collections and building subject specific
policy statements. Experienced professionals examine the stability
of the electronic resources market and explain how the impact of
technical services is redefining the access, collection, and
cataloging of libraries. Collection Development Policies also
provides examples of collection policies currently in use. Read
about: the subject specific policy statements of Schreyer Business
Library and the women's studies collection at Pennsylvania State
University Berkeley's Collection Development Policy (CDPS) and the
factors hindering its revision the creation and revision of St.
John's University's collection development policy Simmons College's
Graduate School of Library and Information Science's term project
and syllabusand how it can be applied to functioning libraries the
Association of Research Libraries' Web pagesand how they have been
influenced by the electronic management revolution Collection
Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collection is a
valuable resource for anyone selecting and acquiring library
materials, maintaining a library collection, or building a
collection development policy. The information in this book will
help you organize your library collection in a manner that will be
beneficial not only to you, but to your clients as well.
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