Collection Building: Volume 14 Issue 3

Creating a World Wide Web resource collection

Sherry Piontek, Kristen Garlock

Argues that collection development librarians, because of their experience in the areas of collection, organization, evaluation, and presentation, are uniquely qualified to create…

Beyond access: new concepts, new tensions for collection development in a digital environment

Wendy P. Lougee

Libraries have generally made the conceptual shift from collections based on “ownership” to more expansive models which incorporate “access” to information. A new set of…

Building subject‐specific guides to Internet resources

Peter S. Morville, Susan J. Wickhorst

Librarians can provide leadership in the era of networked information retrieval by developing subject‐specific guides to Internet resources. The traditional skills of…

Popular culture in the collection: dancing with an expanding universe

Judith Overmier, Rhonda Harris Taylor

Introduces librarians to popular culture studies and emphasizes the importance of collection development of popular culture materials, both primary and secondary. Provides…

“Dumbing down” in children's literature

Paul Kelsey

Discusses the publication of mediocre quality children's literature. Presents the qualities inherent in classical children's literature. Examines the role and possible motives of…