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Collection Management

Collection Management

A Concise Introduction

by John Kennedy
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/06/2006

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The rapidly increasing reliance on digital rather than print-based resources has not diminished the importance of library collection management, but it has required significant modification in the thinking and the practice of collection managers, who today usually have to consider their clients' need for both print-based and digital materials. This updated edition aims to provide a concise overview of the major elements of contemporary collection management of print and digital resources - including policy formulation, selection, acquisition, evaluation, preservation, deselection, and cooperative collecting - in a way which aims to be of interest to the student and to any other reader seeking an understanding of a particularly dynamic area of librarianship.

Much that has been previously published on collection management focuses on academic libraries, particularly those in North America. This book places greater emphasis on the experiences of smaller public and special libraries, and attempts to view its subject from the perspective of libraries in Australia and other countries geographically remote from North America and Western Europe. Dr John Kennedy has taught collection management at Charles Sturt University for over a decade and has produced several previous publications on the subject.
ISBN:
9781876938130
9781876938130
Category:
Acquisitions & collection development
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
01-06-2006
Language:
English
Publisher:
Elsevier Science & Technology
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
234x156x10mm
Weight:
0.35kg

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