Collection development manuals remain highly relevant to library strategic goals, though they are often in need of revision. Staffing models and strategic goals for liaison librarians and subject specialists are evolving rapidly with collection development competing with information literacy, scholarly communication, and digital services for time and resources. In this context, it is more and more likely for important knowledge about local and general best practices to be forgotten or neglected. At the same time, many new librarians inherit collections responsibility in a market for scholarly content in unstable formats and price models. This paper outlines the experience of Howard-Tilton Memorial Library at Tulane University as it made a s...
There are many challenges facing new librarians in the academic environment, including collection de...
Academic libraries have endured as centers of learning and research because they have continually ev...
Many academic libraries face the challenge of decreasing the size of print collections. This paper o...
With recent vast changes in formats, purchase/subscription options, and funding sources, many librar...
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then sto...
With many academic libraries making use of approval plans and demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) the t...
Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries ...
Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries ...
There have been considerable changes in publishing and information dissemination over the last decad...
The collection development and management literature from 2011 and 2012 explores how libraries are m...
The collection development and management literature from 2011 and 2012 explores how libraries are m...
Many academic libraries are struggling to revise collection policies and develop improved methods of...
Over the last few years, the Collection Development Department at the University of Waterloo Library...
The contemporary history of collection management in North American research libraries began midcent...
Collections are undergoing intense change and pressure from technology, budgetary uncertainties, and...
There are many challenges facing new librarians in the academic environment, including collection de...
Academic libraries have endured as centers of learning and research because they have continually ev...
Many academic libraries face the challenge of decreasing the size of print collections. This paper o...
With recent vast changes in formats, purchase/subscription options, and funding sources, many librar...
“Begin at the beginning,” the King said, very gravely, “and go on till you come to the end: then sto...
With many academic libraries making use of approval plans and demand-driven acquisitions (DDA) the t...
Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries ...
Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries ...
There have been considerable changes in publishing and information dissemination over the last decad...
The collection development and management literature from 2011 and 2012 explores how libraries are m...
The collection development and management literature from 2011 and 2012 explores how libraries are m...
Many academic libraries are struggling to revise collection policies and develop improved methods of...
Over the last few years, the Collection Development Department at the University of Waterloo Library...
The contemporary history of collection management in North American research libraries began midcent...
Collections are undergoing intense change and pressure from technology, budgetary uncertainties, and...
There are many challenges facing new librarians in the academic environment, including collection de...
Academic libraries have endured as centers of learning and research because they have continually ev...
Many academic libraries face the challenge of decreasing the size of print collections. This paper o...