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Library collection management is a vital part of any library's operations. Making a Collection Count takes a holistic look at library collection management, connecting collection management activities and departments, and instructs on how to gather and analyse data from each point in a collection's lifecycle. Relationships between collections and other library services are also explored. The result is a quality collection that is clean, current, and useful. The second edition includes expanded information on collection metrics, digital collections, and practical advice for managing collections
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Read an interview with the author now! Packed with discussion questions, activities, suggested additional references, selected readings, and many other features that speak directly to students and library professionals, Gregory's Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections is a comprehensive handbook that also shares myriad insightful ideas and approaches valuable to experienced practitioners. This new second edition brings an already stellar text fully up to date, presenting top-to-bottom coverage of the impact of new technologies and developments on the discipline, including discussion of e-books, open access, globalization, self-publishing, and other trends; needs assessment, policies, and selection sources and processes; budgeting and fiscal management; collection assessment and evaluation; weeding, with special attention paid to electronic materials; collaborative collection development and resource sharing; marketing and outreach; self-censorship as a component of intellectual freedom, professional ethics, and other legal issues; diversity and ADA issues; preservation; and the future of the field. Additional features include updated vendor lists, samples of a needs assessment report, a collection development policy, an approval plan, and an electronic materials license.
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During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventional exhibitions can only ever utilise a tiny proportion of them, what other uses of the collections are possible? Will their exploitation and use now destroy their value for future generations? Should they simply be kept safely and as economically as possible as a resource for the future?
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Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection's life cycle. Relationships between collections and other library services, such as reference, programming, and technology, are also explored. The result is a quality collection that is clean, current, relevant, and useful, and which connects and highlights various library services.Offers practical applications for collection librarians and man
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Museums --- Community life. --- Museum curators. --- Social aspects. --- Collection management.
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Book acquisition --- Library management --- Collectiebeheer (Bibliotheken) --- Collection management (Libraries) --- Gestion de collection (Bibliothèques) --- 025.2 --- Collections management (Libraries) --- Libraries --- Library collection management --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Collectievorming. Acquisitie. Aanwinsten in bibliotheken --- Collection management --- 025.2 Collectievorming. Acquisitie. Aanwinsten in bibliotheken
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Measure twice, cut once. . . . If you can follow a cookbook, you can use these simple ''recipes''—calculations, formulas, and measurements—to come up with statistics for analysis and management of your collection. Using measures of timeliness, relevancy, use percentages, user profiles, and comparisons, you can determine in quantitative ways the quality of your library's collection. From there, you can communicate its value to your customers and that's the name of the game!. By gathering concrete statistical evidence, you will be in a position to weed appropriately and make decisions about futu
Collection management (Libraries) --- Small libraries --- School libraries --- Public school libraries --- Libraries --- Instructional materials centers --- Libraries and schools --- Collections management (Libraries) --- Library collection management --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Statistical methods. --- Collection development --- Collection management --- Book acquisition --- United States --- United States of America
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Business libraries. --- Business school libraries --- Commercial libraries --- Social science libraries --- Research libraries --- Collection management (Libraries) --- Collections management (Libraries) --- Libraries --- Library collection management --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Collection development (Libraries) --- Collection development. --- Collection management
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"Johnson has revised and freshened this resource to ensure its timeliness and continued excellence. Consideration is given to traditional management topics, cooperative collection development and management, licenses, negotiation, and other purchasing and budgeting topics, and the ways that changes in information delivery and access technologies continue to reshape the discipline" --
Collection management (Libraries) --- Collection development (Libraries) --- Collection building (Libraries) --- Libraries --- Library collection development --- Acquisitions (Libraries) --- Collections management (Libraries) --- Library collection management --- Technical services (Libraries) --- Collection development --- Collection management --- Electronic information resources --- Handbooks, manuals, etc. --- Special collections --- Electronic information resources. --- Management.
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