Collection Management Basics (Library and Information Science Text Series)

Library and Archives Canada:

understand the service community’s interests

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graduate and postgraduate education moves the person into the invisible college network, so there is less need to use formal information systems.)

demographic, economic, and geographic.

Booklist, Horn Book, School Library Journal, Voice of Youth Advocates, and H.W. Wilson’s catalogs, such as the Children’s Core Collection.

effective evaluation to occur, the service community’s needs must be considered, which leads back to community analysis.

Institutional setting 2) User interests/needs 3) Resources to consult 4) What exists in the 5) Known collection gaps 6) Depth and breadth of 7) Language of the material and local interest 8) Quality evaluation (10 subcategories) 9) Cost/usage assessment to identify potential items 10) Cost visa vie available funds collection 11) Availability of ite

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