Publisher's Synopsis
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 * Analyzing 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.
