Covering virtually every aspect of its subject, Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections is a soup-to-nuts guide perfect for students and beginning librarians, yet fu
Schull, an advisor to libraries, museums, and foundations on organizational and program development, profiles 117 archival and special collections programs, projects, institutions, and departments in
Vnuk, a librarian, editor, reviewer, and author of the “Weeding Tips” column on Booklist Online, shows librarians how and why to weed their collections to focus resources on those that are most useful
Libraries and the organizations that provide services to them are devoting more attention to system-wide organization of collections—whether the "system" is a consortium, a region or a count
Designed for students and information professionals working with archives or collections of digital data, this how-to guide provides practical instructions for managing meta-data for effective informa
Rearranged and often expanded from presentations at an October 2014 colloquium in Cleveland, Ohio, 17 essays look at special collections within libraries from the perspectives of communities, the endu
Local History Reference Collections for Public Libraries is a one-stop resource designed to support library staff who seek to create, improve, and effectively maintain easy-to-manage reference collect
Ward shows academic librarians how to downsize and streamline potentially little used collections. The material is organized in five chapters entitled "Background," "Traditi
Berger, a museum library director, introduces aspects of the rare book and special collections department of libraries at educational institutions. He discusses general aspects of the two fields and t
Johnson, who has been a cataloger, librarian, collection development officer, and consultant on collection development and management and change in libraries, addresses the development and management
Singer, a reference and instruction librarian at Bowling Green State U., shows librarians how to manage reference collections of any size or type in public, academic, school, corporate, governmental,
Kaplan (library and learning resources, Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences) assembles nine chapters and six examples to help librarians of all types understand the fundamentals of e
Caro presents library professionals with a collection of success stories in the effort to digitize library collections in a variety of nationwide contexts. The author covers what librarians should con
In this book, Santamaria offers library professionals a comprehensive course in extensible processing, that adheres to archival principals and standards. Key concepts discussed at length include the b
The first in a series, this volume lists scores, sound recordings, and DVDs for basic music collections in libraries of all kinds, focusing on specific genres of popular music: the music of colonia
How can academic libraries prove their worth? How can a library control its destiny with collections that are no longer owned or physically housed? This work for advanced students and librarians consi
Ninety-three authors share forty-seven papers providing a host of examples of the effective involvement of undergraduates with primary sources found in archives and special collections. The papers are
Purcell (special collections, Virginia Tech) examines the changing field of academic archives, what academic archivists do, and the future of their work, for archivists of all levels and experience, o
Analyzing Library Collection Use with Excel gives library collection analysts the tools to select the data most relevant to analysis of their collections. Step-by-step instructions accompanied by scr
Walker, a public library manager in South Carolina, recommends Christian books, videos, and DVDs to add to the young adult collection in this guide for librarians. She considers selection criteria, ce
Walker compiles an annotated list of approximately 400 books in two sections--books and series--and categorizes them by genre. Annotations consist of publication information, summaries, and excerpts f
Offers advice on establishing selection criteria, incorporating diversity in elementary collections, and evaluating picture books, fiction, poetry, informational literature, reference materials, and p
Although government information is useful and pervasive in libraries, not everyone who works with these materials has received in-depth training on the collections, and many librarians, who count
The seven chapters in this slim guide provide a practical process for assessing risks to the digital collections of libraries, drafting a disaster plan in the dPlan online disaster planning tool for c
Forde (fomerly Preservation Services, UK National Archives, and educator) and Rhys-Lewis (preservation and collections management consultant, and curation and stewardship, U. College London, UK) provi
This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliographies, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction bible for readers' advisory and co
This reference on reference highlights the best available materials in all media for general library collections. The manual outlines the process for locating, evaluating, and selecting the best info
Eighteen contributions concerned with the preservation of library or archival collections written by administrators, archivist, conservators, and educators. The collective thesis of the papers is that
Miller addresses his fellow public and school librarians on how to develop a quality collection of graphic novels and how to market and program with such materials. After explaining the graphic novel
Author Higgins offers a guide to RDA and MARC 21 film cataloging. RDA is an abbreviation for "Resource Description and Access," a cataloging standard designed for the digital world.
