Fundamentals of Managing Reference Collections

ISBN-13: 9781856048316 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 182 str.

Carol A Singer

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This text offers information and insight on best practices for reference collection management, no matter the size, and shows why managing without a plan is a recipe for clutter and confusion.

Spis treści

1. Reference collection fundamentals

• Definitions
• Paper or electronic resources?
• Going mobile
• Defining boundaries

2. Reference collection development policies

• The parts of a collection development policy
• Purpose of the reference collection development policy
• Responsibility for collection development
• Purpose of the reference collection
• Target audience(s)
• Budgeting and funding
• Selection criteria
• Selection aids
• Preferred format
• Duplicates
• Preferred language(s)
• Circulation
• Treatment of specific resource groups
• Resource sharing
• Collection maintenance
• Weeding and reviewing the collection
• Policy revision
  

3. Staffing models for reference collection management

• Centralized staffing
• Decentralized staffing
• Other participants in reference collection management

4. Selecting reference materials

• Using reviews of books and online resources
• General selection criteria
• Selection criteria for online resources
• Aggregated databases of reference books
• Selection criteria for free internet resources
• Selection criteria for print monographs
• Selection criteria for print serials

5. Acquisitions, budgets, and licenses

• Acquisitions
• Budgets
• Licenses

6. Collection maintenance

• Maintenance of new electronic resources
• Maintenance of existing electronic resources
• Maintenance of new books
• Maintenance of existing print collections
• Marketing new reference resources
• The print collection as a physical entity

7. Weeding the reference collection

• Why are some librarians reluctant to weed?
• Why weed the collection?
• Determining the ground rules
• Planning the review
• Weeding the book collection as a major project
• Performing a continuous review of the collection
• Which method of weeding the collection is best?
• Reviewing print reference serials
• Weeding reference books in off-site storage
• Reviewing the electronic reference book collection
• Reviewing reference databases
• Still reluctant to weed?

8. Reference collection development and consortia

• Budgeting for reference materials
• Selection of materials
• Consortium-produced databases
• Off-site storage
• Pros and cons of working with a consortium
• Being a good citizen of a consortium

9. Discovery and access

• Discovering print reference sources
• Discovering electronic reference sources
• Identifying individual databases
• Identifying individual titles within a larger databaseWeb-scale discovery
  

Appendix. Reference collection development policy template