Rethinking Collection Development and Management

Albitz, Becky, Christine Avery, Diane Zabel (eds.) Rethinking Collection Development and Management. Libraries Unlimited, 2014. ISBN: 978-1-61069-305-9

Description
This collection of thought-provoking essays covers theory, research, and best practices in collection development, examining how it has evolved, identifying how some librarians are creatively responding to these changes, and predicting what is coming next.

Table of Contents
Part I Selection and Assessment  

• Chapter 1 Forces Shaping Scholarly Publishing p. 3
• Chapter 2 The Ghosts in the Stacks: Collection Development Practice Past, Present, and Future in Academic Research Libraries p. 13
• Chapter 3 Who Does What? Building Relationships between Technical and Public Services Staff p. 31
• Chapter 4 Evaluating Subscription Databases p. 41
• Chapter 5 Perspectives on Weeding in Academic Library Collections p. 59
• Chapter 6 Weeding the Collection: Perspectives from Three Public Librarians p. 77
• Chapter 7 Education for Collection Development and Management p. 89

Part II Acquisitions  

• Chapter 8 Demand-Driven Acquisitions: Just in Time p. 101
• Chapter 9 HAM: A Hybrid Acquisitions Model for Public Libraries p. 109
• Chapter 10 Beyond Reviews: Understanding the Selection Cycle in Public Library Collection Development p. 121
• Chapter 11 The Big Deal and the Future of Journal Licensing in Academic Libraries p. 135
• Chapter 12 Collection Development between Teaching Mission and Resource Management: The Case of Carleton College p. 149
• Chapter 13 Lease Plans in Academic Libraries p. 161
• Chapter 14 Lease Services as a Collection Development Strategy p. 169
• Chapter 15 Self-Publishing: Does It Belong in the Collection? p. 177
• Chapter 16 eBooks in Academic Libraries p. 187
• Chapter 17 eBook Collection Development in Public Libraries p. 199
• Chapter 18 Streaming Video p. 215

Part III Access, Cooperative Efforts, Shared Collections  

• Chapter 19 Cataloging for Collection Management p. 233
• Chapter 20 Do We Need Dewey? Anythink Libraries in Colorado p. 243
• Chapter 21 Rethinking Access to Collections in the Discovery Age p. 253
• Chapter 22 Consortia Services in Collection Management p. 271
• Chapter 23 Floating Collections: Perspectives from an Academic Library p. 281
• Chapter 24 Floating Collections: Perspectives from a Public Librarian p. 289
• Chapter 25 Beyond My People and Thy People, or the Shared Print Collections Imperative p. 297

Part IV Preservation and Special Collections  

• Chapter 26 Thinking about Collection Development in Special Collections p. 323
• Chapter 27 Collaborative Disaster Networks p. 335
• Chapter 28 Digitization Projects p. 345
• Chapter 29 Print and Digital Preservation p. 359