Collection Management Basics sheds light on many facets of collection management. When it was first published in 1979, the landscape of library collections was much different, and this all-inclusive ...

Academic librarians have long grappled with issues of collection size, quality versus quantity, and maintaining a core collection. In previous eras, libraries provided access to content by acquiring ...

Get more details on how workflow is simplified in this quick view of My Intota (http://bit.ly/1osAiDJ). My Intota is a great starting point for managing diverse ...

According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions' guidelines (IFLA, 2001, p. 1), a collection development policy "assists with budgeting, serves as communication ...

Preus Library acquires a wide range of information materials designed to enhance and support the educational mission of the College. The policies below help guide the development of our strategic ...

Last year, Jonathan Cope, 40, got an alarming letter from a debt collection company called Unique Management Services. It wasn't for an unpaid student loan or late car payment, but something he didn't ...

The Louisville Free Public Library is proposing doing away with overdue fines. It’s no surprise. No one likes overdue library fines — not even librarians. Especially not librarians! The overdue fine ...

Last summer, in Berkeley, California, librarians pulled roughly forty thousand books off the shelves of the public library and carted them away. The library’s director, Jeff Scott, announced that his ...