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This new work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing a broad understanding of the collection development process. The book covers 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.

This work addresses the challenges of electronic publishing and puts issues of collection development into perspective, providing students and practitioners of library and information science with a broad understanding of the collection development process. The book covers 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 expanded and updated with new material and reading lists. In addition, a chapter that is new to this edition deals with e-serials; and two appendixes contain samples of policies related to electronic concerns. It is an excellent survey of the state of the art of collection development and a comprehensive text.

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• List of Illustrations
• Preface to the Fourth Edition
• Information Age: Information Society
• What Is a Book?
• Libraries, Collections, and the Virtual World Concepts and Terms Collection
• Development and the Community Collection
• Development and Institutional Environments
• Summary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Information Needs Assessment
• Conceptual Background
• Practical Aspects
• Elements of the Study How and Where Is Data Collected?
• How Is Data to Be Interpreted?
• Type of Library
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Collection Development Policies
• What Are Collection Development Policies?
• Uses of a Collection Develpoment Policy
• Elements of a Collection Development Policy
• Getting the Policy Approved
• Summary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Selection Process in Practice
• What Happens in Selection Variations in Selection Public Libraries
• Selection Aids
• Summary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Producers of Information Materials
• What Is Publishing?
• How Publishing Works
• Types of Publishers
• Functional Areas of Publishing Producers''
• Problems and Collection Development
• Summary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Serials: Print and Electronic
• What Is a Serial?
• Selection of Serials
• Special E-Serial Selection Issues
• Selection Models
• Identifying Serials
• Acquisitions/Serial Vendors
• Administration/Handling of Serials
• Preserving the Investment
• Deselection Issues and Concerns
• Cooperation in Serials Work
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Site and Discussion Lists
• Further Reading
• Other Electronic Materials
• Background and Needs
• Assessment Issues in Electronic Collection
• Building Types of Electronic Materials
• Selection Issues
• Collection Development and the Web
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Government Information
• Background Handling
• Government Information Resources
• Types of Documents
• The GPO and Sale of Government Publications
• Public Access and the Federal Depository Library Program
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites and Discussion Lists
• Further Reading
• Audiovisual Materials
• Why Audiovisual Collections?
• Goals of Media Service
• Media Formats
• General Evaluation Criteria
• Audio Recordings: Discs and Tapes Film and Video
• Micrforms Still Pictures (Filmstrips, Slides, Photographs, and Other Graphic Material)
• Previewing Additional Selection Aids
• Ordering Media
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Acquisitions
• Changing Environment of Acquisitions
• Work Staffing Acquisitions
• Processing Order
• Placement and Receiving Gifts and Deposits
• Future Developments
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites and Discussion Lists
• Further Reading
• Distributors and Vendors
• Jobbers and Wholesalers Retail Outlets
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Fiscal Managment
• Problems in Fiscal Management
• Library Fund Accounting
• Estimating Costs
• Allocation of Monies
• Encumbering Audits
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Deselection
• What Is Deselection/Weeding?
• Deselection by Type of Library
• Reasons for Deselecting Barriers to Deselection
• Deselection Criteria
• Criteria for Deselection for Storage
• Summary
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Evaluation
• Background Collection-Centered Methods
• Use-Centered Methods
• What Your ILS May Provide Electronic
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Resource Sharing
• The Something-for-Nothing Syndrome
• What Can Be Gained through Cooperation?
• Resource Sharing Issues
• What to Avoid When Establishing a Resource-Sharing Program
• Shared Purchases
• Local and International Projects
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Protecting the Collection
• Preservation Conservation
• Nonpaper Preservation Issues
• Cooperation Insurance
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites and Discussion Lists
• Further Reading
• Legal Issues IRS
• Regulations Copyright
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act and Earlier Copyright Laws
• The TEACH Act And Digital Rights Management Enforcement
• Contractual Compliance
• Licensing Agreements
• Public Lending Right
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and Collection Development
• Background Examples of Censorship
• What to Do Before and After the Censor Arrives
• Filtering
• Summary
• Notes
• Selected Web Sites
• Further Reading
• Index

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Last revised in 1995, this comprehensive collection development textbook has been updated to "reflect the changing environment of collection management," particularly in the area of electronic resources. Because of the necessity of keeping the final book to a reasonable length, materials from earlier editions are now for the first time available on the Internet. In particular, what had been Chapter 4 ("Selection Process: Theory") and two appendixesÄ"Book and Electronic Collection Policies" and the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) "Statement of Current Perspective and Preferred Practices for the Selection and Purchase of Electronic Information"Äcan be found at lib.lmu.edu/dlc4 and www.lu.com.ÄWWW (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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G. EDWARD EVANS, renowned Fulbright scholar and sought-after international consultant, is University Librarian and Adjunct Professor at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, California.::Zarnosky /f Margaret /i R. /r with asst.