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Making a Collection Count: A holistic approach to library collection management

Holly Hibner, Plymouth District Library and Mary Kelly, Salem-South Lyon District Library, USA

Chandos Information Professional Series

 - offers practical applications for collection librarians and managers who are practitioners in the field. It is more than just a theoretical discussion of collection quality and collection management because useful, realistic advice is offered
 - this is not a book about collection development. It is unique in that the focus is on collection quality: making the most of a library collection budget, performing physical inventory, and gathering/using data and statistics about collections
 - broad, international appeal to various library types: public, academic, school, and special

Making a Collection Count connects the various pieces of library collection management, such as selection, cataloguing, shelving, circulation and weeding, and teaches readers how to gather and analyze data from each point in a collection’s life cycle. Relationships between collections and other library services, such as reference, programming, and technology, are also explored. The result is a quality collection that is clean, current, relevant, and useful, and which connects and highlights various library services.

Readership: Library staff who have collection management duties in all areas of library service such as selection, de-selection, technical services, circulation, or collecting data about the library’s holdings. Department Managers and Library Directors who oversee collection management staff will also find this book useful. It is equally aimed at those who make budget and user services decisions, analyze library data such as collection size, collection usage, and collection status, or who report such data to funders/library stakeholders.

£47.50 / US$80.00 / €55.00

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About the authors

Holly Hibner received an MLIS degree from Wayne State University in 1999. She is the Adult Services Coordinator at the Plymouth District Library in Plymouth, MI. Holly was the recipient of Michigan Library Association’s 2007 Loleta D. Fyan Award. Her special interests are collection management, roving reference and technology instruction.

Mary Kelly is a Reference Librarian at the Salem-South Lyon District Library in South Lyon, MI. She received MBA and MLIS degrees from Wayne State University. Mary’s special areas of interest include technology instruction, collection management, and library statistics.

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Making a Collection Count

Contents

Life cycle of a collection
 - Collection management policies
 - Selection: staff collaboration
 - Purchasing / Acquisitions
 - Processing
 - Shelving
 - Use
 - Check-in
 - Weeding
 - Conclusion
 - Works cited

Understanding your workfl ow
 - Selection
 - Purchasing / Acquisitions
 - Processing
 - Shelving
 - Circulation
 - Weeding
 - Workfl ow analysis improves effi ciency
 - The critical questions

Understanding your workfl ow
 - Selection
 - Purchasing / Acquisitions
 - Processing
 - Shelving
 - Circulation
 - Weeding
 - Workfl ow analysis improves effi ciency
 - The critical questions

Collection audit and using statistics
 - Auditing the library collection
 - Statistics

Collection audit and using statistics
 - Auditing the library collection
 - Statistics

Physical inventory
 - Making physical inventory a regular practice
 - Developing a plan
 - Shelf list
 - What you will discover
 - ILS features for inventory
 - Why should staff spend time on physical inventory?
 - Works cited

Physical inventory
 - Making physical inventory a regular practice
 - Developing a plan
 - Shelf list
 - What you will discover
 - ILS features for inventory
 - Why should staff spend time on physical inventory?
 - Works cited

Creating collection objectives and benchmarks
 - Vision statements and mission statements
 - Collection management policies
 - Collection objectives
 - Creating benchmarks
 - Holistic benchmarking: overall collection performance
 - Works cited

Creating collection objectives and benchmarks
 - Vision statements and mission statements
 - Collection management policies
 - Collection objectives
 - Creating benchmarks
 - Holistic benchmarking: overall collection performance
 - Works cited

Collection organization
 - Physical space
 - Classifi cation systems
 - Ergonomics
 - Signage
 - Displays
 - Conclusion
 - Works cited

Collection organization
 - Physical space
 - Classifi cation systems
 - Ergonomics
 - Signage
 - Displays
 - Conclusion
 - Works cited

Making the most of a library collection budget
 - Vendors
 - Alternate funding sources
 - Formats
 - Sharing
 - Collection philosophy
 - Works cited

Making the most of a library collection budget
 - Vendors
 - Alternate funding sources
 - Formats
 - Sharing
 - Collection philosophy
 - Works cited

Everything is connected
 - Holistic library service
 - How staff impact collections in a holistic library
 - How staff impact the facility
 - How staff impact technology
 - Connections to other library services
 - Evaluating library services holistically
 - Conclusion
 - Works cited

Everything is connected
 - Holistic library service
 - How staff impact collections in a holistic library
 - How staff impact the facility
 - How staff impact technology
 - Connections to other library services
 - Evaluating library services holistically
 - Conclusion
 - Works cited

Appendices
 - A Public library collection management policy
 - B Strategic content negotiation for the small library

Appendices
 - A Public library collection management policy
 - B Strategic content negotiation for the small library