Library collection development policies academic, public, and special libraries /
This book represents an ongoing effort to fill the void in the library literature relating to collection development policies. The authors, whose experience each spans four decades as library educators and practitioners, created the book---as well as a forthcoming companion volume devoted to school...
| Main Author: | Hoffmann, Frank W., 1949- |
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| Other Authors: | Wood, Richard J. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2005.
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| Physical Description: |
xv, 329 pages ; 23 cm. |
| Series: |
Good policy, good practice ;
no. 1. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: |
Table of contents |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1: Components of Collection Development Policies. Introduction to collection development policy components
- Purpose statements in policies
- Background statements in policies
- Responsibility statements in policies
- Mission, goals, and objective statements in policies
- Target audience identification in policies
- Budget allocation and funding statements in policies
- Evaluative criteria identified in policies
- Format statements in policies
- Government publications sections in policies
- Treatment of specific resources identified in policies
- Special collections statements in policies
- Resource sharing statements in policies
- Services identified in policies
- Selection aids identified in policies
- Copyright statements in policies
- Intellectual freedom statements in policies
- Acquisitions methods identified in policies
- Gift and exchange statements in policies
- Collection maintenance identified in policies
- Weeding statements in policies
- Collection evaluation sections in policies
- Policy revisions statements in policies
- Definition of terms and glossaries in policies
- Bibliographies in policies
- Appendixes in policies
- Part 2: Virtual Collection Development. Introduction to virtual collection development
- Policy components for online electronic resources / by Jane Pearlmutter
- Discussion of recent issues
- Sample policies
- Resource sharing in the digital age: an integrative perspective
- Appendix A: Inventory of excerpted library policies
- Appendix B: Intellectual freedom statements and forms.