Collection Building: Volume 9 Issue 3/4

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Organization of Collection Development and Management In Academic Libraries

Carolyn Bucknall

Academic librarians are being bombarded with an accelerating stream of news: new services, new public relations, new information formats, new technologies and new catalogs have…

Information Policies for Collection Development Librarians

Joseph J. Branin

Beware of “Info‐Smoke” warns Art Plotnick in a recent American Libraries editorial. It clouds the meaning and purpose of libraries by embroiling them in the “world's hottest…

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Budgeting for Collection Development: A Suggestion

Richard Ring

Towards the middle of The Name of the Rose Adso of Melk realizes that “not infrequently books speak of books.… In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more…

Cooperative Collection Development Equals Collaborative Interdependence

Paul H. Mosher

Resource sharing or cooperative collection development among American libraries is not new; history reveals waves of cooperative spirit over many decades. Librarians in the United…

Collection Evaluation in the Research Library

Ferne B. Hyman

Among many unflattering characterizations of librarians is the one that accuses us of wishing to keep our collections neat, clean and in proper order on the shelves. That is, not…

Preservation and Collection Management: Some Common Concerns

Margaret M. Byrnes

Awareness of the integral and necessary relationship between collection management and development and preservation programs has been increasing in recent years. At long last…

Information Technologies and Collection Development

Jutta Reed‐Scott

Perhaps the most striking characteristic of today's information environment is the pace of technological innovation. The phenomenal increase in computer memory capacity and speed…

Developing Serials Collections in the 1990s

Sara C. Heitshu, J. Travis Leach

Managing the serials portion of collection development in research libraries demands the wisdom of Solomon and the patience of Job. The difficulties presented by variations in…

A Museum of the Book

R.H. Super

The Modern Language Association of America recently sent a circular to all its members, beginning, “Where would you look if you wanted to find articles, written in Spanish…

Alexandria Revisited: Another Look at Space and Growth

Sheila Dowd

A little over a decade ago, a major library problem was formulated in arresting and witty terms. The growth of library collections, and the consequent pressure for growth of…

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0160-4953

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1978 – 2017

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Emerald Publishing Limited