Collection Building: Volume 9 Issue 2

Cooperative Collection Development: The Northern California Experience

William Pettos

As books and serials proliferate and their prices climb, acquisitions budgets remain static or decrease. One way to resolve the dilemma is a cooperative acquisitions program. The…

Regional Cooperation for Research Collections

Medea lonesco

With the dramatic expansion of information and of library users' need to access that information, cooperative collection development has become an increasingly attractive option…

Determining Budgets for School Library Media Centers

Virgil L.P. Blake, Renée Tjoumas

There are two factors essential to collection development and management in any library or information center. The first is an explicit statement of the organization's goals. The…

Computer Applications in the Humanities: A Bibliography of American Fiction 1901–1925

Geoffrey D. Smith

For a library planning to add to a collection and develop a bibliography in a given area, the computer database can be a key factor in terms of efficiency of the process and the…

Managing Collections in an Automated Network Environment

Anne Marie Allison

The goals of cooperation and collection management in academic libraries may sometimes seem mutually exclusive. Individual institutional objectives may compete and conflict with…

Actualities of Regulating Pornography

Robert S. Bravard

As I think over this rather broad subject, there comes to mind a series of statements, many attribute to Baseball Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra. They appear quite simple on…

Compare and Contrast, Or, The Unexamined Cataloging Record Isn't Worth Inputting

Sanford Berman

More subject tracings. More notes. More added entries for persons, groups, and titles. More up‐to‐date terminology. More specific topical headings. More analytics. More subject…

Library‐Publishing: Automated Acquisitions

Libraries in the United States in the '90s must intensify their examination of how they do things if they are going to serve their patron communities more effectively and…