Recruiting, Educating, and Training Librarians for Collection Development
Published on 25. April 1994
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-313-28561-5 (ISBN)
Description
At a time of shrinking budgets and increasing demands, libraries are facing problems in meeting their needs for new collection development specialists. This volume proposes creative solutions to the three significant problems experienced by library administrators: attracting new collection development librarians, educating them in appropriate library school programs, and training them to perform their jobs. The chapters in this book, written by leading collection development officers, practitioners, and educators, cover innovative ways of looking at the entire range of collection development activities, from goals and objectives in staff development for collection work to scenarios from the next millennium.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
558 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-313-28561-5 (9780313285615)
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Persons
PEGGY JOHNSON is Assistant Director, St. Paul Campus Libraries, University of Minnesota. She was previously Collection Development Officer, University of Minnesota Libraries, which has a collection of over 5 million volumes. She has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, and Morocco, and she has published several journal articles and books, including Guide to Technical Services Resources (1994).
SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Her books include Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (1987) and Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle (1991), both published by Greenwood Press.
SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Her books include Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (1987) and Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle (1991), both published by Greenwood Press.
Content
Acknowledgments Introduction Overview Book Selection and Collection Building: Comments on the Art by Bill Katz Recruiting for Collection Development The Professionalization of Acquisitions and Collection Development by Terry L. Allison and Marion T. Reed Recruiting as Competition: Why Choose Collection Development? by Eugene L. Wiemers, Jr. Late Awakenings: Recruiting Subject Specialists to Librarianship and Collection Development by Michael Keller Recruiting Non-Bibliocentric Collection Builders by Sheila S. Intner Educating for Collection Development Collection Development in the Library and Information Science Curriculum by Paul Metz Among the Disciplines: The Bibliographer in the I World by Michael T. Ryan Collection Development Is More Than Selecting a Title: Educating for a Variety of Responsibilities by Peggy Johnson Should Courses in Acquisitions and Collection Development Be Combined or Separate? by Thomas E. Nisonger The Practicum in Collection Development: A Debate by Liz Futas Training for Collection Development Training for Success: Integrating the New Bibliographer into the Library by George J. Soete The Conspectus as an On-site Training Tool by Anthony W. Ferguson Training Existing Staff to Assume Collection Development Responsibilities by D. Whitney Coe and Joseph P. Consoli Professional and Survival Imperatives by Gay N. Dannelly Implications for the Future Collection Development in the Year 2025 by F. W. Lancaster Selected Bibliography Index