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Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management Paperback – 31 March 2018
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Technical Services Quarterly declared that the third edition ‘must now be considered the essential textbook for collection development and management…the first place to go for reliable and informative advice.’ For the fourth edition expert instructor and librarian Johnson has revised and freshened this resource to ensure its timeliness and continued excellence. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development and management, including numerous suggestions for further reading and narrative case studies exploring the issues. Thorough consideration is given to:
- traditional management topics such as organization of the collection, weeding, staffing, and policy making
- cooperative collection development and management
- licenses, negotiation, contracts, maintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers, and other important purchasing and budgeting topics
- important issues such as the ways that changes in information delivery and access technologies continue to reshape the discipline, the evolving needs and expectations of library users, and new roles for subject specialists, all illustrated using updated examples and data
- marketing, liaison activities, and outreach.
- Print length464 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherFacet Publishing
- Publication date31 March 2018
- Dimensions17.78 x 2.24 x 25.4 cm
- ISBN-101783302747
- ISBN-13978-1783302741
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This fourth edition will therefore undoubtedly find its way to library training...Even for those who already work in libraries, there is still a lot of valuable information to be found in the individual chapters.- InformatieProfessional (Dutch journal)
― InformatieProfessionalAbout the Author
Peggy Johnson has published several books, including ALA Editions’ Developing and Managing Electronic Collections: The Essentials, edited the peer-reviewed journal Library Resources & Technical Services for more than nine years and continues to edit Technicalities: Information Forum for the Technical Services Professional. She teaches as an adjunct professor in the MLIS program at St. Catherine University and received the ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009.
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- Publisher : Facet Publishing; 4th edition (31 March 2018)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 464 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1783302747
- ISBN-13 : 978-1783302741
- Dimensions : 17.78 x 2.24 x 25.4 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 1,051,997 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 21 in Library Automation
- 36 in Library Collection Development
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About the author

Peggy Johnson is a frequent speaker and trainer on collection development and management. She has published several books, including ALA Edition’s bestselling Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, and numerous journal articles. She edited the peer-reviewed journal, Library Resources & Technical Services, for more than nine years, ending her term in December 2012, and continues to edit the journal, Technicalities: Information Forum for the Technical Services Professional. Prior to retiring from the University of Minnesota Libraries, she served as Associate University Librarian. Peggy is past president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and received the ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. She has consulted on library development in Morocco, Rwanda, Uganda, Senegal, and China, and on technical services and collection development and management in the U.S. Peggy teaches library management as an adjunct professor in the St. Catherine University MLIS program. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and has a Masters from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School and a Masters of Management and Administration from Metropolitan State University.