collection development

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• Dollars & Sense #12: Being Selective about Selection

  
  YALSA — Authority: 520
  Circulation reports are not as boring as you think! These reports can be an invaluable source of information for those librarians who find themselves dollar short. Most circulation software has the capability to run a myriad of reports that can instantaneously inform librarians of circulation trends in their library, ...
  5 days ago

• Spreading Some Christmas Cheer

  
  Cathy Nelson's Professional Thoughts — Authority: 117
  Dr. Mary Ann Bell’s post (from her Blog The Top Shelf) got me to remembering what I loved most about being an elementary librarian in the not too distant past. (And if I had not felt like the glorified babysitter and residential expert media person, and expected to do both all the time with no consideration for ...
  5 days ago

• ILL and Collection Development on a Tight Budget

  
  Shaping Libraries — Authority: 91
  Image via Wikipedia With the economy the way it is has been over the past year or so a lot of libraries have turned back to ILL as an alternative to shrinking book-buying budgets. I wonder if this is really working the way we want it to. In the most recent study I could find about the cost for mediated ILL ...
  5 days ago

• We Dont Need No Stinking Librarian

  
  A Chair, A Fireplace & A Tea Cozy — Authority: 568
  Or do we? Librarian in Black and The M Word - Marketing Libraries are talking about a "staffless" library has opened in Kings County. There is interesting talk, pro and con, at those two blogs, so click on through to add to the discussion. The story the blog posts are based on is at Library Journal . My first ...
  6 days ago

• RIP Kirkus Reviews, 1933 – 2009

  
  Collection Developments @ Sno-Isle — Authority: 129
  The New York Times arts blog reports today that Kirkus Reviews is closing.  No date is given for the final issue.  The owner, Nielsen Business Media, is closing Kirkus and its other trade publication, Editor & Publisher.  No word on whether the Kirkus online site will continue, or whether another buyer will ...
  1 week ago

• Dollars & Sense #7 – Collection Development on a Shoestring

  
  YALSA — Authority: 520
  How do you continue to add new materials to the collection when your budget is slashed? Or when, as happened to a friend in a neighboring town, the board says, “What do you need new books for? You already have a bunch…” Even with zero budget, there are some strategies that you can use to put new materials into ...
  1 week ago

• Can you afford to weed and feed?

  
  Cathy Nelson's Professional Thoughts — Authority: 117
  Would you keep this book in your collection? Thanks to TeacherNinja (a librarian-to-be who blogs) I have discovered a blog to add to my already too full reader.  As my colleague and I launched a weeding project this week, this blog is highly relevant AND downright entertaining to boot. Awful Library Books ...
  3 weeks ago

• Weeding, wonderful weeding

  
  Joeyanne Libraryanne — Authority: 103
  There are many things I enjoy about being a librarian. As I’ve mentioned before, I find it particularly rewarding helping people utilise our resources to find the information they need. But a lot of the work we do as librarians isn’t really seen. Much of a librarian’s time is spent in an office sat in front of a ...
  4 weeks ago

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