Selection is the branch of collection management concerned with deciding which items will be added to the library collection and made available to the library’s users (Kennedy, 2006, p.33). Librarians have the difficult task of trying to balance their collections by identifying, evaluating and selecting items in different formats which caters for the needs and wants of the current and future interests of their users. Exploring the traditional selection process of library materials, this essay will discuss the impact and demands that the increasing availability of electronic and digital materials are placing upon librarians today to maintain a well balanced collection. Twenty years ago, the most common item in a library of any kind would have been printed copies of a book or journal. Librarians would have used different selection aids in acquiring these items for the collection; such aids would have been from publishers catalogues, from visiting bookshops and book warehouses and most commonly via approval orders and standing orders. Over time as information has been stored and retrieved by computers, information has become readily available online due to the internet and the emergence of new technologies. The internet has changed the way people communicate and access information. This has also effected and changed the selection of media types that is the best material to buy for library collections, and consequently which will be the most cost effective and beneficial for future use. Libraries are continually dealing with the difficulties to adjust and maintain collections with varying materials and to deliver them to their users in a timely fashion. An example of this is that the internet now holds texts of standard r... ... middle of paper ... ...st. Interlibrary loans and document delivery Apart of every library’s approach to collection development is the factors that affect them during the selection process. Works Cited Hardy, G., & Davies, T. (2007). Letting the patrons choose: using EBL as a method for unmediated acquisition of ebook materials. Paper presented at the Information Online 2007 : 13th Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Exhibition and Conference. Retrieved 24th December 2009, from http://www.information-online.com.au/index.php?pagename=Conference%20Planner Lewis, D. W. (2007). A Strategy for Academic Libraries in the First Quarter of the 21st Century. College and Research Libraires, 2007(September), 418-434. Miller, R. H. (2000). Electronic Resources and Academic Libraries, 1980-2000 : A Historical Perspective Library Trends, 48(4), 645-670.
Who can resist a book with a chapter titled, "Labia Lumps, Chunky Discharge, and Other Things They Never Taught Me in Library School"? Released this past summer, Revolting Librarians Redux: Radical Librarians Speak Out takes no prisoners as its contributors ponder everything from the backtracking of '60s values by ALA's baby boomers to librarian imagery in erotica. This edited volume is a sequel to a 1972 self-published book titled Revolting Librarians. The original is worth checking out for its historical value alone. The editors of the 2003 volume, Katia Roberto and Jessamyn West gathered essays from ten of the original writers from the 1972 book for this version and it is interesting to see what thirty years has done to these radical librarians.
Libraries have been around for centuries, serving as places of wonder for children and as quiet sanctuaries for adults. The age of technology, however, has been quite detrimental for these places; shelves of books have been replaced by screens, and librarians have been replaced by search engines. There are some who wholeheartedly wish to preserve libraries, and the author of this article is one. Zadie Smith argues for the conservation of libraries and, throughout the writing, utilizes many literary devices to support and strengthen her claims.
Research in Library Science is conducted in many areas covering multiple questions, but one thing shared is data collection. Qualitative and quantitative information to support the question at hand are necessary to validate the needs or phenomenon or trends (Wildemuth, 2009). Transaction logs and focus groups are two valuable data collection techniques.
This library system is utilizing all the technologies and materials available to them to serve the community in the best way. Despite certain social indicators and demographic statistics indicating that the library should not be overly utilized, it is thriving and is heavily in use. There are areas that the library can look to improve based on statistical evidence, such as reaching out to the low income population and the over 55 years age group. This library seems to be meeting numerous needs for a wide range of patrons, and doing it well.
In the article “What a simple library can really mean,” Jeff Little argues that the library in
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While the Dewey decimal system contains a comprehensive index, the Library of Congress Classification system does not (Taylor 430). Each volume of the LCC schedules contains its own index and these indexes do not refer to one another. Finding subjects in the schedules can be awkward. To locate a topic, one must check through each volume index of all the different disciplines that may ...
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Public Librarians’ Attitudes Regarding Acquisition and Access. Judaica Librarianship [serial online]. July 2014; 18:54-87. Available from: Academic Search Complete, Ipswich, MA. Accessed February 4, 2015.
Collection Development Policy for Kirkendall Public Library Mission Statement “The mission of the Kirkendall Public Library is to provide equal access to information, materials and services within an environment that welcomes interaction and personal enrichment for all the people of our community.” (Kirkendall Public Library: Mission Statement, 2013) Purpose of the Collection Development Policy This written collection development policy is intended to provide staff and patrons with a clear understanding of the direction and purpose of the library’s collection. Explained within is the standards in which will be used in order to add or even withdrawn items from the library’s collection.
The history of the e-book spans a longer period than many people would realise. Most people would assume that the internet came before the e-book. However, this is not the case. The first ever e-book was the U.S. Declaration of Independence. It was typed up by the founder of Project Gutenberg, Michael S Hart, in 1971 whereas the internet was not created until 1974. Even then, it was not the internet we know today. In order to chronicle a history of e-books up to the present day the following issues must be addressed. What were the initial forms of e-books like; what kind of formats are used in electronic publishing; what sorts of devices are used to read electronically; what is digital rights management, and how does it apply to the e-book; and what impact has the e-book had on the way books are price and on publishing business models.
However, iIn spite of the current pre-eminence of e-books, it may be argued that they are not likely to replace print books anytime soon or possibly at all. Both formats have their advantages and drawbacks, which makes for one of them difficult to replace the other. Moreover, they serve differents needs and purposes. E-books are famous for their portability. Hundreds of e-books can be stored on a single device. Thus e-books don’t take shelving space and are convenient to take on travel, while even a few paper books are bulky and quite heavy to carry around. Numerous e-books are in open access, while paper books are not routinely available free of charge. E-books may be acquired and accessed immediately online, a feature I enjoy especially and treasure most: many a time I was able to buy and read an e-book at home within minutes of learning of its existence. Needless to say, e-books are considerably easier to cite and quote than print books, since the copy-paste feature spares us the trouble of retyping the quoted text. Another important advantage of digital books is their specialized software, which makes reading much easier: search and reference tools, changeable font size and day/night mode, dictionaries. Last but not least, e-books conserv...
With technology progressing from drones fulfilling shipments to electronic books becoming cheaper, major companies such as Apple and Amazon have had a big impact on not only the tech industry but the publishing industry as well. Companies are outputting resources like IBook’s and the Kindle bookstore to take full advantage of the transition to digital publishing. As a result of this we have greener, more budget friendly books, and outdated traditional copies of text. With the introduction to these resources it is making the lives of students and the mass market more convenient. Students are now able to purchase books on one device that won’t weigh their bags down on a daily basis. Companies have created bookstores that can be accessed from devices that we use every day, resulting in paperless copies of books that are substantially cheaper than the traditional hard copy. E-books are replacing physical books and textbooks rapidly, and as a result they are becoming more widely and readily available for students.
The Center for the Digital Future’s 2005 report found that 'among users 17 and older, 56.3 percent consider the Internet to be a very important or extremely important source of information for them' (p. 4). Online resource capabilities save an individual time as well as provide ease of access and availability to a broad scope of materials. Print books and journals, though they provide in–depth information on a particular subject, are not easily accessible and available at any particular moment. In order to access many books, an individual must either visit the local library or contain the book in his or her own private collection, which could be costly. Online resources can be accessed anytime at anyplace. “Overall, there is expanded access to information in a variety of formats from worldwide institutions, businesses, and universities" (Darrow & MacDonald, 2004, p. 22). Access to “worldwide” information puts a broad range of information in the h...