Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)

Library leaders in the 21st century must be able to present compelling visions of the future in nonconfrontational terms—as advocates.

We all share the information.

“‘Content’—a category that encompasses everything to which a library enjoys ready physical or digital access regardless of ownership—is central to all that we do” (p. 119).

one of the significant roles of libraries is the long-term preservation of what is deemed important societal information and records.

Technology, broadly thinking, is the application of “tools” to an activity.

it is expandable, contractible, and can be manipulated (such as combined or reinterpreted).

issue—improving their information literacy skills.

done—change.

any organizational context,

knowledge management as the “management of objects that can be identified and handled in information systems”