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Making a Collection Count: A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management
Woodhead Publishing Ltd, March 2011, Pages: 200
Holly Hibner, Plymouth District Library and Mary Kelly, Salem-South Lyon District Library, USA
- offers practical applications for collection librarians and managers who are practitioners in the field. It is more than just a theoretical discussion of collection quality and collection management because useful, realistic advice is offered
- this is not a book about collection development. It is unique in that the focus is on collection quality: making the most of a library collection budget, performing physical inventory, and gathering/using data and statistics about collections
- broad, international appeal to various library types: public, academic, school, and special
Making a Collection Count takes a holistic look at library collection management. It connects the various pieces, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation, and weeding and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection's life cycle. Relationships between collections and other library services, such as reference, programming, and technology, are explored as well. The result is a quality collection that is clean, current, relevant, and useful, and which connects and highlights various library services.
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