Introduction to collection development and management -- Organizational models, staffing, and responsibilities -- Planning, policy, and budgets -- Developing collections -- Vendor relations, negotiation, and contracts -- Managing collections -- Marketing, liaison activities, and outreach -- Collection analysis, accountability, and demonstrating value -- Collaborative collection development and management.
Summary:
"Johnson has revised and freshened this resource to ensure its timeliness and continued excellence. Consideration is given to traditional management topics, cooperative collection development and management, licenses, negotiation, and other purchasing and budgeting topics, and the ways that changes in information delivery and access technologies continue to reshape the discipline" -- Provided by publisher.
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