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Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fifth Edition (paperback)
Libraries Unlimited | G. Edward Evans and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro | Top 20 Textbooks | Library and Information Science | September 30, 2005 ISBN 10: 1591582199 ISBN 13: 9781591582199 This latest edition continues to cover all phases of collection development—from needs assessment, policies, and the selection process (theory and practice) to publishers, serials, protection, legal issues, and censorship and intellectual freedom. Each chapter has been extensively revised to reflect changing practices, policies, and technologies and, in some cases, completely rewritten. A new addition is a CD containing supplementary material; a companion Web site will also be maintained to ensure URLs referenced throughout the text are kept up-to-date. Can$54.00 [Add to Cart] [View Cart] Also in the Library and Information Science Text Series:        Teacher Librarian April 2006 Professional Reading, by Dr. David Loertscher EvanÕs work has been the standard text and authority on collection development for all types of libraries. It still is. However, in the advent of digital resources, the Internet, databases, multimedia, and so forth, the topic of collection development is so large that our authors have resorted to their usual 450-plus pages, including a CD-ROM with numerous articles written by various authors. They also have established a web site that brings even more current materials to the attention of the reader. For the teacher-librarian, much of the collection development ideas rest with academic, public, and special libraries, and although some mention is given to schools, the focus is broad and specialized. Should we teacher-librarians be educated broadly about the collection development concerns of all types of libraries? Should we understand a role that we can play in the total information picture? And now that technology has thrust us into a new world, how important are the many collection development practices that exist from tradition? There is not room here to discuss the implications of collection development as we transition from print to digital. Evans clearly gives a mix of the traditional with glimpses into the difficulties and challenges of the present and immediate future. This is heavy stuff, not bedtime reading, and it is still required in many library schools. So, if you are a current student or want to get serious about updating what you learned long ago in library school, then this is certainly the core center of professional reading. There are, however, many other concerns of teacher-librarians as we emerge into the 21st century and as we address the needs of our kids, who seem tethered to GoogleÉ but that is another conversation. . Bottom line: Evans is recommended as a central work. |
