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ACQUISITIONS AND COLLECTION
DEVELOPMENT GUIDES
The Collection Program in Schools
Concepts and Practices
Sixth Edition | MARCIA A. MARDIS
“ professional development of school librarians. ”
[A]n accessible text that is invaluable both for teaching and for the
—VOYA, August 2, 2016
Our digitally rich world changes quickly and contains more information resources than ever
before; as a result, school librarians are tasked with the enormous challenge of curating a
diverse, high-quality, and up-to-date collection for teachers, students, and administrators
to use. This new edition of The Collection Program in Schools gives school librarians the
February 2016, 330pp, 7x10 tools to develop and maintain a collection in a constantly changing environment, often
Print: 978-1-61069-823-8 with reduced budgets; and to ensure that students can use virtual libraries and have access
$65.00, £50.00, €60.00 to all modern media and learning resources.
eBook: 978-1-61069-824-5
FEATURES
• Provides a complete guide to collection management for students as well as
practitioners
• Addresses current educational initiatives and new standards
• Introduces key principles of curation such as acquisition, description, organization,
promotion, evaluation, and maintenance
• Supplies an overview of school funding models and their effects on school library
resourcing as well as a discussion on grant writing and federal sources of assistance
Collection Management Basics
Sixth Edition | G. EDWARD EVANS AND MARGARET ZARNOSKY SAPONARO
> AWARD WINNER
Best Professional Book of the Year, 2012 –Teacher Librarian
“ adequately covered in this work, it is recommended as a textbook
Because every aspect of collection management seems to have been
for library and information science courses in both graduate and
”
undergraduate programs as well as for training purposes within libraries.
—ARBA, January 1, 2013
May 2012, 343pp, 7x10 The well-established gold standard for teaching collection development, this text provides
Hardcover: 978-1-59884-863-2 current and thorough coverage to all of the processes and issues surrounding managing
$65.00, £50.00, €60.00 library collections.
eBook: 978-1-61069-259-5
Paperback: 978-1-59884-864-9 FEATURES
$48.00, £37.00, €44.00 • Created under the guidance of an advisory board consisting of members who
represented academic, public, and school librarianship, and who have all taught
librarianship courses during their careers
• Provides sidebars that recount experiences of the authors and the advisory board in
collections management and provide real-life examples of the ideas in the text being
applied
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