Weeding Library Collections

Weeding is a perennial challenge for librarians. This book will help you rise to the task by offering you basic instructions, including information on new formats and digital collections.

Without recommending any chemical bibliocides, helps librarians improve their collection by systematically weeding out volumes. Summarizes opinion, experience, and research on the matter, and also ser

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

Developing Library Collections for Today’s Young Adults is a definitive guide to selecting and building 21st century library collections from print books to electronic material—including ebooks, datab

Written for beginning library science students, this book introduces the theory and practice of organizing library collections in a clear, straightforward, and understandable way. It explains why and

Strategies and tools to help you plan, build, and maintain your library collection! Selecting Materials for Library Collections takes you step-by-step through the process of planning, building, and m

Working with Library Collections is written in clear language with practical examples of how performance can contribute to exemplary library service. It is aligned with the ALA support staff standards

Working with Library Collections is written in clear language with practical examples of how performance can contribute to exemplary library service. It is aligned with the ALA support staff standards

Riches of the Rylands explores and celebrates the outstanding Special Collections of The University of Manchester Library. These collections of rare books, manuscripts, archives, maps and visual mater

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

Planning a new or refurbished public library means considering not only facilities for collections, services, staff and users, but examining also the local context, reviewing the library image, and de

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

An Emergent Theory of Digital Library Metadata is a reaction to the current digital library landscape that is being challenged with growing online collections and changing user expectations. The theor

This book provides a straightforward, easy-to-follow procedural manual that will enable school library aides and new school librarians to develop excellent school library collections.

Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838–1917) was a prolific writer on bibliography, literature and the arts. As founder of the Index Society, and editor of The Bibliographer, he was also involved in the foundation of the Library Association. In that context he wrote several works on library topics. How to Catalogue a Library (1889) was aimed at smaller library collections, as existing systems, such as the manuals of the British Museum library or the Library of Congress, were too elaborate for smaller collections. Wheatley begins by defining the differences between catalogues, indexes and bibliographies, and then compares the existing rules. He discusses the physical form of catalogues and lists the minimum requirements for the catalogue of a small library. He also discusses cataloguing manuscripts and cross-referencing, and provides a useful index of Latin place names. The book contains much on the theory of organisation of information still of relevance today.

This unique state-by-state directory covers monuments, memorials, museums, markers, statues and library collections that relate to the veterans, weapons, vehicles, airplanes, victims or any other asp

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

Developed by the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), this text covers best practices for the review of materials in a library's general collection. The guide describes

This is an exploration of the richness inherent in genre and ethnic collections. The contributors were asked to provide an overview of their topic, its relevance to library collections and suggestions

Foreword by George F. WillWith a new Preface by Carla Hayden, Librarian of CongressA lavishly illustrated history of America's game, from the unparalleled collections of the Library of Congress.“One o

This book retraces the founding and development of the David Lubin Memorial Library, one of the richest collections of titles in the world on food, agriculture and international development.

Library professionals and scholars share reflections, best practices, and strategies for building collections about and supporting the information needs of Asian American communities. It conveys the n

Library professionals and scholars share reflections, best practices, and strategies for building collections about and supporting the information needs of Asian American communities. It conveys the n

In pre–Revolutionary War America, libraries were member-driven collections for the elite; it was not until 1790 that Benjamin Franklin helped to establish the first public lending library. Throughout

The Bodleian Library is home to one of the world’s largest and oldest collections of maps, with atlases, maps, and books on cartography dating back to the fourteenth century, including many that are a

In the last decade library collections have rapidly evolved from a predominance of print books and journals to an ever growing mix of digital and print resources. Library patrons are predominately ser

In the last decade library collections have rapidly evolved from a predominance of print books and journals to an ever growing mix of digital and print resources. Library patrons are predominately ser

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

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

The Arcadian Library, based in London, is one of the finest collections of books reflecting European interest in the Arab and Islamic worlds. Among its c.10,000 volumes are many copies with important

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

The beautiful and entertaining arrangements in the Dan Coates Popular Piano Library collections are a welcome addition to any pianist's pop repertoire. Medleys for Christmas is a collection of favorit

A practical handbook like no other - the most authoritative, imaginative, useful and fun reference resource on weeds and weeding to date

This two-volume catalogue is the first comprehensive scholarly description of the Western medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, one of the finest collections in Ame

The entertaining arrangements in the Dan Coates Popular Piano Library intermediate collections are a welcome addition to any pianist's pop repertoire. Medleys from Broadway is a collection of favorite

Thanks to its past benefactors, the University of Oxford's collections in the Bodleian Library and Ashmolean Museum are very rich in Indian paintings, especially of the Mughal period (c.1550-1850), in

This collection of essays on interpreting and using library-generated data and outside data gives information on using data to inform and persuade, evaluation of monographic collections, serials and e

Complete double bass parts to 64 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM! These unprecedented collections give musicians the opportunity to build a personal library of orchestra repertoire at an incredibly l

Complete timpani and percussion parts to 42 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM! These unprecedented collections give musicians the opportunity to build a personal library of orchestra repertoire at an i

Complete flute and piccolo parts to 42 orchestral masterworks on CD-ROM! These unprecedented collections give musicians the opportunity to build a personal library of orchestra repertoire at an incred