An updated, top-to-bottom guide to collection development and management

CHICAGO — The latest edition of a text relied upon by LIS students and practitioners alike for more than twenty years, the newly updated “Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management,” published by ALA Editions, serves as the perfect guide for beginners and a quick reference tool for seasoned professionals. For the new fifth edition, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson is joined by technical services expert Mary Beth Weber. Complete with refreshed case studies exploring the issues and suggestions for further reading, each chapter provides in-depth coverage of one aspect of collection development and management. Readers will gain a thorough understanding of:

• traditional management topics such as organization of the collection, staffing, planning, and policymaking;
• the continuing relevance and importance of the discipline in an increasingly digital environment;
• open access, the Big Ten Open Books collection, and moving toward a digital library ownership model;
• e-book lending, including purchasing models (PDA, DDA, EBA) and controlled digital lending;
• collaborative collection development and management;
• licenses, negotiation, contracts, maintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers, and other important purchasing and budgeting topics;
• self-published books and their path into library collections;
• collection analysis and weeding, including both print and e-resources;
• timely issues such as the ways in which collecting practices have changed post-pandemic, the evolving needs and expectations of library users, diversity in library collections, and ensuring accessibility, all illustrated using updated examples and data; and
• marketing, liaison activities, and outreach, through coverage expanded for this edition.

Examination copies are available for instructors who are interested in adopting this title for course use.

A frequent speaker and trainer, Johnson has published several other books, including “Developing and Managing Electronic Collections: The Essentials," and numerous journal articles. She 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. Prior to retiring from the University of Minnesota Libraries, she served as associate university librarian. During more than thirty years at the University of Minnesota, her responsibilities focused on collection development and management, technical services, institutional planning, grants management, and budgeting. A past president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), she received the ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. Peggy has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, Senegal, Morocco, and China. Weber has worked in library technical services in academic libraries for over thirty years and is an expert on cataloging nonprint materials, acquisitions workflows, and non-MARC metadata for digital collections. Author of numerous books, including “Virtual Technical Services: A Manual” and “Rethinking Library Technical Services: Redefining Our Profession for the Future,” she has given presentations on cataloging, mentoring, and publishing for various organizations. She chaired Rutgers University Libraries’ Faculty Mentoring Program Committee for two years and also participated in ALCTS’ inaugural mentoring program. Weber is an active member of Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a division of ALA. She served as editor-in-chief of Library Resources and Technical Services (LRTS) for nine years and helped transition the journal from ALCTS to Core. Weber was awarded the ALCTS Presidential Citation in 2011 for her service as the ALCTS Newsletter Editor. She received the ALCTS Honors award in 2015 for her contributions as LRTS Editor. Weber is currently the head of central technical services at Rutgers University Libraries and oversees resource description (MARC and non-MARC) for all four of Rutgers’ campuses.

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