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This comprehensive treatment of essential issues in collection management describes how to plan, build, and manage physical and virtual collections that meet the curriculum needs of students and teachers. Topic Include: * The information landscape * Introduction to collection management * yzing the environment * Policies for collection management * Selection and acquisition * Maintaining collection viability A previous edition of this work, Providing More with Less: Collection Management for Australian School Libraries was published by the Center for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Australia, in 1998.
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Clear and well organized...This book would well serve any school library management course and should be consulted by those of us "in the trenches" who need material to back policy proposals, funding requests, or grant writing. School Library Journal ...this text provides a general guide for any teacher-librarian serious about responsibly developing a school collection. All facets of collection management are included in the text, from drawing up a policy for collection development through to the funding of such a project...it would be suitable as a text for use in library studies courses at TAFE and university undergraduate levels. Orana ...the conceptual discussions of collection management issues and practices are well written and...thought provoking...the balance of local library applications...will make the material immediately valuable. The book succeeds in communicating the complexities of collection management. It represents a valuable resource for school librarians facing the challenges of this work. Technical Services Quarterly ...useful for teaching the theories involved in collection management in school library media centers. American Reference Books Annual
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This revised edition of Providing More With Less, 2d ed. (2001) includes 13 essays on knowledge management, collection policies, selection and acquisition, technological changes, collection viability, evaluation, funding, and related issues. The book was originally intended for an Australian audience, but it discusses skills and concepts important
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