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Child, Margaret – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1992
Discusses preservation issues for library collection development staff including the library mission, types of materials, preventive preservation measures, active preservation measures, preservation concerns in acquisitions decisions, gaining the support of administration for a preservation program, options for implementing a preservation program,…
Descriptors: Library Collection Development, Library Planning, Library Technical Processes, Preservation
McGlamery, Patrick – 1999
This paper addresses the library collection development of spatial information in cartographic format. Highlights include: the impermanent nature of maps; changes in spatial information creation, storage, processing, and management resulting from developments in computer-based information technology; steps required to download the digital version…
Descriptors: Cartography, Information Technology, Internet, Library Collection Development

Atkinson, Ross – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1990
Argues that preservation and collection development can be effectively coordinated only when the underlying political forces driving these two operations are defined and compared. The discussion explores some of the functions and values of preservation and collection development from a primarily political point of view in three contexts:…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Innovation, Library Collection Development
Sullivan, Peggy – School Library Journal, 1990
Discusses the need for the preservation of both print and non-print library materials. Issues raised include problems of photocopying; deciding what to discard and weed out of collections; special considerations for children's books; jobs for preservation librarians; and the need for good judgment in making preservation decisions. (LRW)
Descriptors: Books, Childrens Literature, Decision Making, Employment Opportunities

Dean, John F. – Journal of Library Administration, 1986
Examines changes in emphasis on collection development and conservation in both library and archival materials in recent years, and outlines evaluative criteria and priorities to be used in formulating collection management policy. (CLB)
Descriptors: Archives, Evaluation Criteria, Library Collection Development, Library Planning
Cunningham-Kruppa, Ellen – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1992
Summarizes the main elements of the library preservation officer's role--planning, administering, and coordinating. Areas in which preservation and collection development staff work together at the University of Texas at Austin are then discussed, including bibliographic review, binding, grant projects, needs assessment, and storage facility…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cooperation, Higher Education, Library Collection Development

Ferguson, Anthony W.; And Others – Journal of Library Administration, 1987
Considers 10 areas of internal operations in which the Research Libraries Group/North American Collection Inventory Project (RLF/NCIP) Conspectus can be used as a management aid: collection priorities, collection management, space utilization, preservation programs, staffing allocations, material fund requests, accreditation, materials selection,…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Financial Support, Library Administration, Library Collection Development

Smith, Eldred – Microform Review, 1991
Discusses the national program for preservation microfilming in research libraries and suggests that microfilm is not the appropriate medium to be used. Recommendations for the electronic storage of materials on computerized databases are made; disadvantages of microfilm are described; interlibrary loan problems are discussed; and effects on…
Descriptors: Copyrights, Databases, Information Storage, Interlibrary Loans
Daval, Nicola, Ed. – 1987
Presentations on NCIP (North American Collections Inventory Project) program developments and future program directions are combined with business meeting minutes in this report from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL). The text of remarks presented as part of a panel discussion on the program theme includes: (1) "Development and Use…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Cataloging, Conferences, Library Associations

Buckland, Michael K. – Journal of Documentation, 1989
Defines and describes three roles of library collections: archival, dispensing, and bibliographic. It is argued that the rise of remotely accessible materials makes possession less important relative to access, has implications for all three roles, and indicates a shift in emphasis away from collection development and conventional catalogs and…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Archives, Bibliographies, Cataloging
Dannelly, Gay – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1992
Considers the connection between library preservation and collection management and examines their shared culture based on experiences at the Ohio State University library. Organizational structure, a preservation planning study, space limitations, cooperative projects between preservation and collection development staff, and potential future…
Descriptors: College Libraries, Cooperation, Cultural Context, Higher Education
Cox, Richard J. – 2002
The book "Double Fold" is an investigation into what its author Nicholas Baker, a novelist and essayist, terms as a deception of research libraries and their maintenance of books and newspapers, their paper collections. This book is a response to Baker's writings, based on the author's perspective as an archivist. The first chapter introduces…
Descriptors: Archives, Debate, Librarian Attitudes, Library Collection Development
Billings, Harold – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1994
Discussion of preservation of and access to information and knowledge focuses on selection decisions that libraries make. Topics addressed include a decrease in funding; collection development; preservation processes, including reformatting into digital data; private collections; unpurchased current publications; new electronic technologies;…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Decision Making, Information Technology, Library Administration

Willard, Louis Charles – Microform Review, 1991
Provides a critical examination of the methods and procedures currently followed in the national program for preservation microfilming in research libraries and suggests alternative approaches for selecting materials for microfilming. Source literature is discussed as being important to focus on, and the cost and completeness of bibliographic…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Records, Cataloging, Cost Effectiveness, Criteria

Bagnall, Roger S.; Harris, Carolyn L. – Journal of Academic Librarianship, 1987
Compares current approaches to decisions involving the preservation of library materials and describes a national project aimed at identifying and preserving important classical studies on microfiche. The use of an editorial board of scholars in this decision making process is evaluated and alternative scholarly involvement models are suggested.…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Advisory Committees, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness
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