Collection Management for School Libraries
This comprehensive treatment of essential issues in collection management describes how to plan, build, and manage physical and virtual collections that meet the curriculum needs of students and teachers. Topic Include:\ • The information landscape\ • Introduction to collection management\ • Analyzing the environment\ • Policies for collection management\ • Selection and acquisition\ • Maintaining collection viability A previous edition of this work, Providing More with Less: Collection...
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This revised edition of Providing More With Less, 2d ed. (2001) includes 13 essays on knowledge management, collection policies, selection and acquisition, technological changes, collection viability, evaluation, funding, and related issues. The book was originally intended for an Australian audience, but it discusses skills and concepts important to all libraries. The contributors teach library science and management. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR School Library Journal Thirteen chapters range from historical descriptions to depictions of the current library landscape. The human dimension of collection management, policies, selection, acquisition, evaluation, and funding management are also examined. Of high interest is the chapter entitled "Collection Management Dilemmas in the Digital Age." Phyllis Van Orden's words on weeding (in the chapter on maintaining collection viability) will provide comic relief. The text is clear and well organized with excellent use of headings, bullets, and charts. An extensive bibliography, a useful index, and sample policies are included. This book would well serve any school library management course and should be consulted by those of us "in the trenches" who need material to back policy proposals, funding requests, or grant writing. For those who don't need a lot of theory, but prefer a "nuts and bolts" approach, try Karen R. Lowe's Resource Alignment: Providing Curriculum Support in the School Library Media Center (Beacon Consulting, 2001).-Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
Chapter 1 Preface to the First Edition Chapter 2 Preface to the North American Edition Chapter 3 1 The Information Landscape Chapter 4 2 Introduction to Collection Management Chapter 5 3 The Historical Context: An Evolution Toward Knowledge Management Chapter 6 4 Knowledge Management: The Human Dimension of Collection Management Chapter 7 5 Analyzing the Environment Chapter 8 6 Policies for Collection Management Chapter 9 7 Selection and Acquisition Chapter 10 8 Information and Communication Technologies Meet Collection Management Chapter 11 9 Collection Management Dilemmas in the Digital Age Chapter 12 10 Maintaining Collection Viability Chapter 13 11 Collection Evaluation Chapter 14 12 Collection Program Funding Management Chapter 15 13 Issues in Collection Management Chapter 16 Appendix A Chapter 17 Appendix B Chapter 18 Bibliography Chapter 19 List of Contributors Chapter 20 Index
\ Orana...this text provides a general guide for any teacher-librarian serious about responsibly developing a school collection. All facets of collection management are included in the text, from drawing up a policy for collection development through to the funding of such a project....it would be suitable as a text for use in library studies courses at TAFE and university undergraduate levels.\ \ \ \ \ Technical Services Quarterly...the conceptual discussions of collection management issues and practices are well written and...thought provoking...the balance of local library applications...will make the material immediately valuable. The book succeeds in communicating the complexities of collection management. It represents a valuable resource for school librarians facing the challenges of this work.\ \ \ American Reference Books Annual...useful for teaching the theories involved in collection management in school library media centers.\ \ \ \ \ American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)...useful for teaching the theories involved in collection management in school library media centers.\ \ \ \ \ School Library JournalThirteen chapters range from historical descriptions to depictions of the current library landscape. The human dimension of collection management, policies, selection, acquisition, evaluation, and funding management are also examined. Of high interest is the chapter entitled "Collection Management Dilemmas in the Digital Age." Phyllis Van Orden's words on weeding (in the chapter on maintaining collection viability) will provide comic relief. The text is clear and well organized with excellent use of headings, bullets, and charts. An extensive bibliography, a useful index, and sample policies are included. This book would well serve any school library management course and should be consulted by those of us "in the trenches" who need material to back policy proposals, funding requests, or grant writing. For those who don't need a lot of theory, but prefer a "nuts and bolts" approach, try Karen R. Lowe's Resource Alignment: Providing Curriculum Support in the School Library Media Center (Beacon Consulting, 2001).-Cindy Darling Codell, Clark Middle School, Winchester, KY Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.\ \
