Collection Development Policies: Academic, Public, and Special Libraries (Good Policy, Good Practice)

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2005
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This book represents an ongoing effort to fill the void in the library literature relating to collection development policies. The authors, whose experience each spans four decades as library educators and practitioners, created the book_as well as a forthcoming companion volume devoted to school libraries_to assist both library school students and professionals in the field in the compilation, revision, and implementation of collection development policies. Cutting edge trends such as digital document delivery and library cooperation are also covered.

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This book represents an ongoing effort to fill the void in the library literature relating to collection development policies. The authors, whose experience each spans four decades as library educators and practitioners, created the book_as well as a forthcoming companion volume devoted to school libraries_to assist both library school students and professionals in the field in the compilation, revision, and implementation of collection development policies. Cutting edge trends such as digital document delivery and library cooperation are also covered.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 352
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 28 Aug 2005
ISBN 10: 0810851806
ISBN 13: 9780810851801

Media Reviews

...examines the typical elements in collection policies (such as evaluative criteria, resource sharing statements, and acquisition methods) and offers many examples of each from academic and special libraries. A section on virtual collections (electronic resources and resource sharing) discusses the issues involved with nontraditional acquisitions. * Zentralblatt fur Geologie und Palaontologie *
The book is well organized and easy to use....an excellent resource for both beginners and experienced collection management professionals....This volume would be a valuable addition to the professional collections of academic, public, and special libraries and is highly recommended. * Reference and User Services Quarterly, Vol. 45, No. 3, Spring 2006 *
Hoffmann (library science, Sam Houston State University) and Wood (director of libraries, U. of South Alabama, Mobile) compile a guide for students and librarians on collection practices, incorporating issues and methods spawned by the internet and electronic publishing. The focus is on university, public, and special libraries; a similar book on school libraries is forthcoming, and both are scions of the 1996 Library Collection Development Policies: A Reference and Writer's Handbook. The first part focuses on creating a blueprint for a library's holdings. The second part (which includes a chapter by Jane Pearlmutter on resource sharing) looks at developments in electronic collections. The volume incorporates samples, contact information for libraries whose policies were quoted in the book, and intellectual freedom statements and forms. * Reference and Research Book News *

Author Bio

Frank W. Hoffmann is professor of library science at Sam Houston State University. He has worked in libraries in Indiana, Tennessee, and Pennsylvania and has written over thirty books relating to librarianship and popular music, including more than a dozen titles for Scarecrow Press. Richard J. Wood is director of university libraries at the University of South Alabama and was formerly the director of university libraries at the Citadel and Sam Houston State University.