Recruiting, Educating, and Training Librarians for Collection Development

At a time of shrinking budgets and increasing demands, libraries are facing problems in meeting their needs for new collection development specialists. This volume proposes creative solutions to the three significant problems experienced by library administrators: attracting new collection development librarians, educating them in appropriate library school programs, and training them to perform their jobs. The chapters in this book, written by leading collection development officers, practitioners, and educators, cover innovative ways of looking at the entire range of collection development activities, from goals and objectives in staff development for collection work to scenarios from the next millennium.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Overview
Book Selection and Collection Building: Comments on the Art by Bill Katz
Recruiting for Collection Development
The Professionalization of Acquisitions and Collection Development by Terry L. Allison and Marion T. Reed
Recruiting as Competition: Why Choose Collection Development? by Eugene L. Wiemers, Jr.
Late Awakenings: Recruiting Subject Specialists to Librarianship and Collection Development by Michael Keller
Recruiting Non-Bibliocentric Collection Builders by Sheila S. Intner
Educating for Collection Development
Collection Development in the Library and Information Science Curriculum by Paul Metz
Among the Disciplines: The Bibliographer in the I World by Michael T. Ryan
Collection Development Is More Than Selecting a Title: Educating for a Variety of Responsibilities by Peggy Johnson
Should Courses in Acquisitions and Collection Development Be Combined or Separate? by Thomas E. Nisonger
The Practicum in Collection Development: A Debate by Liz Futas
Training for Collection Development
Training for Success: Integrating the New Bibliographer into the Library by George J. Soete
The Conspectus as an On-site Training Tool by Anthony W. Ferguson
Training Existing Staff to Assume Collection Development Responsibilities by D. Whitney Coe and Joseph P. Consoli
Professional and Survival Imperatives by Gay N. Dannelly
Implications for the Future
Collection Development in the Year 2025 by F. W. Lancaster
Selected Bibliography
Index

About the author

PEGGY JOHNSON is Assistant Director, St. Paul Campus Libraries, University of Minnesota. She was previously Collection Development Officer, University of Minnesota Libraries, which has a collection of over 5 million volumes. She has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, and Morocco, and she has published several journal articles and books, including Guide to Technical Services Resources (1994).

SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Her books include Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (1987) and Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle (1991), both published by Greenwood Press.

Product details

• Authors: Sheila S Intner, Sheila S. Intner, Intner Sheila S., Peggy Johnson
• Assisted by: Sheila S Intner (Editor), Sheila S. Intner (Editor), Peggy Johnson (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.04.1994
• EAN: 9780313285615
• ISBN: 978-0-313-28561-5
• Series: New Directions in Information; New Directions in Information
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system; Personnel & human resources management, Industrial or vocational training, Personnel and human resources management, EDUCATION / Vocational & Technical, Acquisitions & collection development, Acquisitions and collection development, Librarianship: Philosophy, Values, and Issues