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Collection Development Assessment for New Collection Development Librarians
Collection Management, 2008A number of articles have been written in the past several years that provide practical advice for librarians new to collection development, particularly in terms of understanding terminology, learning collection development processes, and gaining familiarity with one's library and institution.
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2012
The collection is the heart of the library. Everything revolves around the library’s resources, be they hard copy, non-print, vertical file, or digital. Without that collection, the library’s staff is unable to provide quality service, answer questions, and teach patrons how to perform legal research. Because basic collection development theory applies
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The collection is the heart of the library. Everything revolves around the library’s resources, be they hard copy, non-print, vertical file, or digital. Without that collection, the library’s staff is unable to provide quality service, answer questions, and teach patrons how to perform legal research. Because basic collection development theory applies
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Issues in Collection Development Wanted: Collection Development Officer
Collection Building, 1982Larger libraries of both the academic and public varieties have in the last few years increasingly been creating the position of Collection Development Officer in their organizations. It seems to me that there are two very important problems with the searching and hiring procedures for this position.
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Cooperative Collection Development
Collection Management, 1989A group of public and academic libraries in Northern California, realizing that there was some unnecessary duplication of collection emphases in a geographic region lacking major collection resources, decided to apply for an LSCA grant to explore the possibilities for cooperative colection development.
William A. Pettas, Henry Bates
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Issues in Collection Development: Collection Evaluation
Collection Building, 1982Building a collection in academic and public libraries entails knowing the publishing market and matching it to the community to be served. This requires a guiding philosophy with goals and statements of objectives, which usually end up as part of a collection development policy.
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Retrospective Collection Development
The Acquisitions Librarian, 2004The New Thought movement is the focus of an exercise in developing a core collection to support research in a defined subject area. The authors outline the New Thought movement's conceptual and historical development and apply this outline to the selection of library resources.
John T. Fenner, Audrey Fenner
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Developing Collecting Policies for Manuscript Collections
The American Archivist, 1984Collecting policies should be a component of programs that seek to eliminate future problems, lessen competition, and provide an avenue for deaccessioning. Collecting policies can also assist the curator in fulfilling the mission of the manuscript collection, but guidelines for producing such policies have not yet been formulated.
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Collection development for government map collections
Government Publications Review. Part A, 1981Abstract Of the maps produced worldwide 80% are published by government agencies. In developing a map collection the librarian faces problems very different from those involved in developing a documents or book collection. This article reviews those problems, and suggests a methodology for use in developing the map collection.
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Guerrilla Collection Development:
College & Undergraduate Libraries, 1995In smaller libraries without a Collection Development Librarian, there is often little time for collection management. At such institutions, librariansmight consider guerrilla collection development: a series of time-saving tactics to get the job done. Although not an ideal approach, it might be a functional solution in the real world.
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Collection Development Decisions
The Serials Librarian, 2001Abstract Nancy Cunningham presented a study, completed in 1997, evaluating the quality and usability of documents received via interlibrary loan and document delivery services, when compared with the original published articles. The primary focus was on the quality of reproduced illustrations in histology and microscopy, as determined by faculty in the
Nancy A. Cunningham, Sharon McCaslin
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