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Acquisitions l Collection Management
2022 | softcover 240 pp | 6" x 9" $49.99 | Members: $44.99
2022 | softcover 176 pp | 6" x 9" $64.99 | Members: $58.49
2021 | softcover 184 pp | 6” x 9” $64.99 | Members: $58.49
The Weeding Handbook: A Shelf-by-Shelf Guide, Second Edition
Rebecca Vnuk | PRINT: 978-0-8389-3717-4
Praise for the first edition “A thorough and informative source on weeding library collections and yet also an easy, engaging
read . . . Recommended.” —Technicalities
Vnuk has revised and updated her text to keep pace with libraries’ longer-term shifts in collection development and access, such as a growing emphasis on digital collections. Walking readers through the proverbial stacks shelf by shelf, this book
À includes real-life case studies of librarians working on weeding projects;
À explains how weeding can positively affect library budgets;
À offers recommended weeding criteria and call-outs in each subject area;
À provides easily adaptable, updated sample development plans;
À advises readers on weeding problematic materials, such as those that include racist depictions; and
À gives advice for educating the community about the process, how to head off PR disasters, and what to do with weeded materials.
Zines in Libraries: Selecting, Purchasing, and Processing
Edited by Lauren DeVoe and Sara Duff, in collaboration with Core Publishing
PRINT: 978-0-8389-3804-1
Their homegrown aesthetic make zines important cultural and historical objects. Including them in library collections is a perfect way to amplify underrepresented voices. This resource offers top-to-bottom guidance to collections staff, administrators, and catalogers for understanding and processing zines for library collections. Readers will learn
À why these collections are valuable;
À targeted advice on zine collection development and management, including selection, cataloging, and promotion;
À how to navigate the challenges of obtaining zines from small independent vendors;
À ways to work with zine creators to develop a respectful preservation program;
À insights from a case study exploring genre, context, and purpose in contemporary Latin American fanzines; and
À where zines can fit in at school libraries or in one-shot instruction.
See also: Transforming Print, page 36.
Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection, Second Edition
Mary E. Miller and Suzanne M. Ward | PRINT: 978-0-8389-4972-6 Demonstrating the power and flexibility of “rightsizing,” an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection, this bestselling book’s expert guidance addresses
À how to use continuous assessment to identify the no- and low-use materials in the collection;
À crafting a rightsizing plan, from developing withdrawal criteria and creating discard lists to managing workflow and disposing withdrawn materials, using a project-management focus;
À moving toward a “facilitated collection” with a mix of local, external, and collaborative services;
À six discussion areas for decisions on participating in a shared print program;
À factors in choosing a collection decision support tool;
À relationships with stakeholders;
À how to handle print resources after your library licenses perpetual access rights to the electronic equivalent; and
À future directions for rightsizing
2021 | softcover 288 pp | 6" x 9" $67.99 | Members: $61.19
No Shelf Required 3: The New Era for E-Books and Digital Content
Edited by Mirela Roncevic and Peyton Stafford | PRINT: 978-0-8389-1769-5 Delving into the latest developments among the varied players in the e-book marketplace, including publishers, libraries, and vendors, the latest volume in the best-selling No Shelf Required series is written from a strong international perspective. Such contributors as Michael Blackwell, Mary Minow, Neil Butcher, and Tonya McQuade discuss a range of groundbreaking initiatives that tap into the potential of digital content to be omnipresent. This volume’s coverage includes
À the DPLA national e-book platform;
À ReadersFirst, a movement to improve e-book access from libraries;
À the AudiobookSYNC project, a free summer audiobook program for teens;
À using e-books to teach poetry and publishing processes;
À the Multnomah County Library Library Writers project;
À the Internet Archive and e-books; and
À e-books and sustainable literacy in Africa.
2020 | softcover 208 pp | 6" x 9" $74.99 | Members: $67.49
The Complete Guide to Institutional Repositories
Edited by Stephen Craig Finlay, in collaboration with Core Publishing | PRINT: 978-0-8389-4810-1 Though the operations of your Institutional Repository (IR) are unique, you are not alone in your challenges, whether it’s discovery of born-digital content or policies for deposit and withdrawal. This resource gathers expertise to offer a comprehensive guide on IR management. Readers will sharpen their understanding of such key topics as
À managing complexity task-by-task using a detailed breakdown of IR projects;
À six crucial elements every deposit policy should address;
À using the SHERPA RoMEO database to quickly locate publisher policies;
À policy development, community outreach, and open source software testing, illuminated through case studies;
À metadata basics for the non-cataloger;
À authority control for electronic theses, dissertations, and grey literature; and
À showcasing undergraduates’ work with student peer-reviewed journals, photography, or theater performances.
2021 | softcover 336 pp | 6” x 9” $93.99 | Members: $84.59
The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition
Alison Cullingford | PRINT: 978-1-78330-537-7 An essential resource for staff working with special collections in a wide range of settings, including academia, public libraries, and museums, this new edition has been revised and updated to reflect the growth and complexity of the environment in which special collections operate. Cullingford thoroughly covers the essential principles, skills, and knowledge to manage special collections in any setting, including
À preservation;
À developing and managing collections, including enriched guidance on decolonizing collections;
À understanding objects;
À emergency planning and security;
À facilities, with discussion of working towards zero-carbon buildings;
À managing remote access by staff and users; À legal and ethical concerns, including new material on the 2018 UK Data Protection Act; À cataloging; À digitization and digital resources; À the implications of the “digital shift” and the place of special collections in online and hybrid teaching and learning; À marketing, outreach, and advocacy; and À fundraising.
2021 | softcover 160 pp | 6” x 9” $59.99 | Members: $53.99
2021 | softcover 240 pp | 6" x 9" $64.99 | Members: $58.49
Transforming Print: Collection Development and Management for Our Connected Future
Lorrie McAllister and Shari Laster, editors, in collaboration with Core Publishing
PRINT: 978-0-8389-4882-8
Though trends might seem to foretell print’s demise in academic collections, they also represent a golden opportunity. Editors Laster and McAllister led Arizona State University’s Future of Print project, an initiative focused on fostering engagement with print collections by emphasizing unique local holdings. In this book they share their experiences alongside contributors from other institutions, spotlighting the ways in which people and books are central to fulfilling the library’s mission, including
À the “Open Stacks” concept and methodologies being developing at ASU;
À haptic learning and information literacy;
À Latin American collections in American research libraries;
À the St. Louis Model for Shared Regional collection as an approach for arranging cooperative FDLP collections outside consortial settings;
À efforts toward increasing inclusion in library collections at the University of Denver; and
À an open digital future for the Library of Congress.
Telling the Technical Services Story: Communicating Value
Edited by Kimberley A. Edwards and Tricia Mackenzie, in collaboration with Core Publishing
PRINT: 978-0-8389-4946-7
It’s incumbent on technical services staff to take a proactive approach by communicating to others their value to the library and institutional mission. Spotlighting several successful initiatives, this collection will give you the guidance to bolster communication within departments, across the library, and campus-wide. You’ll learn about
À breaking down silos by applying the 7 principles of communities of practice;
À software such as Trello, Basecamp, and Confluence that can improve communications workflows;
À ticketing systems and training to help frontline staff solve e-resource access problems;
À supporting research data management through metadata outreach;
À 4 narrative strategies to market library resources;
À using infographics as a dynamic way to illustrate progress in a collection management program;
À developing an external communication plan for a library de-selection project; and
À using portfolio management to collaboratively implement new services.
2021 | softcover 136 pp | 6” x 9” $69.99 | Members: $62.99
Managing Grey Literature: Technical Services Perspectives
Michelle Leonard and Susan E. Thomas, editors, in collaboration with Core Publishing
PRINT: 978-0-8389-4881-1
Using this guide, collection managers and acquisitions librarians, preservation librarians, catalogers, and library managers will understand how to utilize the technical services workflow to process and showcase this unique material.
2020 | softcover 120 pp | 6˝ x 9˝ $49.99 | Members: $44.99
The Library Liaison’s Training Guide to Collection Management
Alison M. Armstrong and Lisa Dinkle
PRINT: 978-0-8389-4802-6
“I only wish such a resource had been available 40 years ago when I was learning to be a library liaison and as I subsequently assumed the role of training others.”
—Technicalities
2020 | softcover 184 pp | 7" x 10" $59.99 | Members: $53.99
The Electronic Resources Troubleshooting Guide
Holly Talbott and Ashley Zmau | PRINT: 978-0-8389-4764-7
“By focusing on the most important elements of troubleshooting as they arise in a library-specific context, the authors fulfill their promise . . . [This guide] is not only quite readable from cover to cover, but also perhaps serviceable in the longer term as a ready reference for the troubleshooting e-resource librarian. It is written in clear and unadorned prose, with helpful visualizations and abundant bibliographic references. I enjoyed reading it and would recommend it to colleagues in libraries and other resource-based institutions, whose work depends on reliable access to
electronic resources—which these days is more or less everyone.”—Technicalities
“The strength of the guide is in its description of electronic access models used by libraries and
the lists of common issues and their solutions.”—Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association (JALIA)
2020 | softcover 288 pp | 6" x 9” $68.99 | Members: $62.09
Open Praxis, Open Access: Digital Scholarship in Action
Edited by Darren Chase and Dana Haugh | PRINT: 978-0-8389-1867-8 Many in the world of scholarship share the conviction that open access will be the engine of transformation leading to more culture, more research, more discovery, and more solutions to small and big problems. This collection brings together librarians, scholars, practitioners, policymakers, and thinkers to take measure of the open access movement. The editors meld critical essays, research, and case studies to offer an authoritative exploration of
À the concept of openness in scholarship, with an overview of how it is evolving in the US, Canada,
Europe, and Asia;
À open access publishing, including funding models and the future of library science journals;
À the state of institutional repositories;
À Open Educational Resources (OER) at universities and a consortium, in subject areas ranging from literary studies to textbooks; and
À open science, open data, and a pilot data catalog for raising the visibility of protected data.
2020 | softcover 184 pp | 8.5" x 11" $44.99 | Members: $40.49
Collection Management for Youth: Equity, Inclusion, and Learning, Second Edition
Sandra Hughes-Hassell | PRINT: 978-0-8389-4750-0
”Certainly a timely publication as our profession strives to address the troubling issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the environments in which we work . . . Hughes-Hassell writes clearly and persuasively. I recommend this book not only to those who work with children and teens, but to all who work in libraries. Far too many library practitioners remain unaware of the biases that are present in our library collections and services. [It] would also be an excellent textbook.”
—Technicalities This text provides models and tools that will enable library staff who serve youth to create and maintain collections that provide equitable access to all youth. And as Hughes-Hassell demonstrates, the only way to do this is for collection managers to be learner-centered, confidently acting as information guides, change agents, and leaders. Many customizable tools and templates are included.
2019 | softcover 288 pp | 7" x 10" $79.99 | Members: $71.99
Collection Development and Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An Introduction, Second Edition
Vicki L. Gregory | PRINT: 978-0-8389-1712-1
“Packed full of useful tips, knowledge, and guidance . . . An essential resource for any academic or
public services librarian.” —ARBA Complete with discussion questions, activities, suggested additional references, selected readings, and many other features that speak directly to LIS students, Gregory’s comprehensive handbook also shares myriad insightful approaches valuable to experienced practitioners. The second edition presents top-tobottom coverage of
À the impact of new technologies and developments on the discipline, including discussion of self-publishing, e-books, open access, globalization, and other trends;
À needs assessment, policies, and selection sources and processes;
À budgeting and fiscal management;
À weeding, with special attention paid to electronic materials; and
À collaborative collection development and resource sharing.
2018 | softcover 432 pp | 7" x 10" $85.00 | Members: $76.50
Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, Fourth Edition
Peggy Johnson | PRINT: 978-0-8389-1641-4
“The information is well researched, logically arranged, and suitable as a guide for beginners and a
quick reference tool for seasoned professionals.“ —ARBA Expert instructor and librarian Johnson gives thorough consideration to
À traditional management topics such as organization of the collection, weeding, and staffing;
À cooperative collection development and management;
À licenses, negotiation, contracts, maintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers, and other important purchasing and budgeting topics;
À key issues such as the ways that changes in information delivery and access technologies continue to reshape the discipline, the evolving needs and expectations of library users, and new roles for subject specialists, all illustrated using updated examples and data; and
À marketing, liaison activities, and outreach.
2020 | softcover 272 pp | 8.5" x 11" $57.99 | Members: $52.19
The Complete Collections Assessment Manual: A Holistic Approach
Madeline M. Kelly | PRINT: 978-0-8389-1868-5
—Allison Escoto, Librarian’s Library With a structure that makes it applicable as both a training tool for practicing librarians and a useful course text for library students, this manual
À introduces foundational assessment methodologies and then provides concrete guidance on how to contextualize those methodologies within a holistic collections assessment program;
À covers topics such as assessment goals, assessment stakeholders, selecting data and methodologies, working through project constraints, and project planning;
À includes sample assessment program structures and other useful templates; and
À provides step-by-step instructions for more than a dozen specific methodologies.
