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Collection development: tools and references

Because of the close linkages between the collection assessment process and the creation of collection development policies this list of tools and references has been compiled to provide a reference source for Australian libraries.

Library policies provide a valuable source of information and guidance for libraries undertaking collection assessment and preparing a collection development policy. If you know of any other tools or references that you have found useful and your feel should be included in this list please send them to ALG Administration.


Collection Development Policies and Procedures / edited by Elizabeth FUTAS. 3rd edition (Phoenix, Ariz. : Oryx Press, 1995)

Collection Management and Development : Issues in an Electronic Era : Proceedings of the Advanced Collection Management and Development Institute, Chicago, Illinois, March 26-28, 1993 / edited by Peggy JOHNSON and Bonnie MacEWAN (Chicago, American Library Association, 1994)

Collection Management for the 21st Century : a Handbook for Librarians / edited by G.E. Gorman and Ruth H. Miller. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 1997). Greenwood Library Management Collection.

Cooperative Collection Development : Discussion Papers / edited by Peter CLAYTON (Canberra : Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services, ACT Committee, 1990)

Evans, G. EDWARD. Developing Library and Information Center Collections, 3rd edition (Englewood, Colo. : Libraries Unlimited, 1995)

FRAME, Barbara. 'Developing our Collections Cooperatively : Some Practical Considerations' in So Great a Cloud of Witnesses' : Libraries and Theologies. Festschrift in Honour of Lawrence D. McIntosh / edited by Philip HARVEY and Lynn PRYOR (Melbourne : Uniting Church Theological Hall; Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association, 1995), p.43-49.

GENONI, Paul and Margaret JONES. 'Defining the Virtual Collection : a New Model for Collection Development' in Electronic Dream? Virtual Nightmare : the Reality for Libraries : 1996 VALA Biennial Conference and Exhibition : Conference Proceedings, 30 January to 1 February 1996, World Congress Centre, Melbourne (Melbourne : Victorian Association for Library Automation, 1996), p. 321-329.

GORMAN, G.E,, and J. KENNEDY. Collection Development for Australian Libraries (Wagga Wagga, NSW : Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, 1992)

Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements / edited by Joanne S. ANDERSON for the Subcommittee to Revise the Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements, Administration of Collection Development Committee, Collections Management and Development Section, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, 2nd edition (Chicago : American Library Association, 1996). Collection Management and Development Guides.

Guide to Cooperative Collection Development / edited by Bart HARLOE for the Subcommittee on the Guide to Cooperative Collection Development, Administration of Collection Development Committee, Collections Management and Development Section, Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (Chicago : American Library Association, 1994), Collection Management and Development Guides.

Guidelines for the preparation of a collection development policy / Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services (ACLIS).

JAKIMOW, Rachel. 'Sharing Resources Nationally : Some Practical Strategies' in Australian and New Zealand Theological Library Association Newsletter, no.28, April 1996, p11-17.

JOHNSON, P. 'Collection Development Policies : a Cunning Plan' in Technicalities, vol. 14, no. 6, June 1994, p3-6.

JOHNSON, P. 'Writing Collection Development Policy Statement : Format, Content, Style' in Technicalities, vol. 14, no. 10, October 1994, p2-5.

JOHNSON, P. 'Writing Collection Development Policy Statement : Getting Started' in Technicalitiesi, vol. 14, no. 6, June 1994, p3-6.

KENNEDY, J. Collection Development in Geographical Isolation : a Study of Four University Libraries (Wagga Wagga, NSW : Charles Sturt University School of Information Studies, 1996), School of Information Studies Occasional Paper, no. 1/96.

MADDICK, P. 'Collection Development : Everything You Always Wanted to Know!' in Access, vol. 9, no. 2, May 1995, p20-24.

The National Electronic Library : a Guide to the Future for Library Managers / edited by Gary M. PITKIN (Westport, CT : Greenwood Press, 1996), Greenwood Library Management Collection.

RAYNOR, G.E. Developing a collection development policy: evolution and process (University of Tasmania)

Organization of Collection Development : a SPEC Kit / compiled by Gordon ROWLEY; editor, Laura A. ROUNDS (Washington, DC : Association of Research Libraries, c1995)

SMITH, Elizabeth W. Using WLN Conspectus software to prepare a collection development policy (Washington, DC : Georgetown University, Launiger Library, [199?]

THOMSEN, Elizabeth. Reference and Collection Development on the Internet : a How-To-Do-It Manual (New York : Neal-Shuman Publishers, c1996)

WHITEHEAD, Derek. How to write a collection development policy, Acquisitions. Vol 6, no. 2, 1989: pp 25 - 28

WOOD, Richard J. and Frank HOFFMANN. Library Collection Development Policies : a Reference and Writers' Handbook (Lanham, Md : Scarecrow Press, c1996)

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