IS 560: Suggested Course Readings

These items should be found in the Hodges Library Reserve Department. Note that the 560 reserve list may be found in the UT Libraries Catalog by clicking on Hodges Library Reserves on the bottom of the main screen. Some periodical articles have been scanned and may be read online. Please let the teacher know if you have difficulty in retrieving them.

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Because I have used a text book for the last few years, I welcome suggestions for newer items related to the topics below. Please let me know when you encounter an item that should be on this list.

Introduction to developing and managing collections

  1. Belk, Collecting in a Consumer Society [HF 5415.33.U6B45 1994], chapters 1, 4, and 5
  2. Pearce, Museums, Objects and Collections: a cultural study [AM 5 .P43 1992], chapters 1,3,4,5 and 6 or Pearce, On Collecting: an investigation into collecting in the European Tradition{AM 342 .P43 1995], chapters 1, 13, 14, an d 20
  3. Librarians may wish to read Nilson's "Collection development issues of academic and public libraries: converging or diverging?" in Collection Building,,(no. 4), 9 - 17
  4. Librarians may also wis to read "From smart guesser to smart navigator"

Proxy selection: reviews & reviewing

  1. Blake, "The role of reviews and reviewing media in the selection process," Collection Management, 11 (no. 1/2, 1989), 1 - 41
  2. Bridges, "Scholarly book reviews and collection development," The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 15 (November, 1989), 290 - 293

Importance of collection development & management

  1. Atkinson, "Access, Ownership, and the future of collection development" in Collection Management and Development: Issues in an electronic era, 92 -109
  2. Atkinson, "Text mutability and collection administration," Library Acquisitions: Practice & Theory, 14 ( ), 355-358
  3. Zappen, "Are the methods working?" Collection Management,19 (no. 3/4 1995), 171-183

Collection development: art vs. science

Current awareness

  1. Katz [Z 689 .K32], pages 1 - 19, 44 -66, and 88 - 120
  2. Baker, The Responsive Public Library Collection [Z 716.4 .B25 1993, chapters 3,4,8 and 9

Community analysis

  1. Katz, pages 24 - 43
  2. Browse in the community analysis issue of Library Trends[vol 24, no. 3, January, 1976
  3. Cassell and Futas, Developing Public Library Collections, Policies and Procedures [Z 687 .C38 1991]
  4. Hazen, "Collection Development Policies in the Information Age," College and Research Libraries, 56 (January, 1955), 29 - 31

Policy statements

  1. Snow, "Wasted words: the written collection development policy and the academic library," Journal of Academic Librarianship, 22 (May, 1996), 191 - 194
  2. Collection Development for Libraries {Z 687 .G65 1989], chapters 1,2, and 3
  3. Cassel and Futas, chapter 5 and appendix A

Evaluation

  1. Baker and Lancaster [Z 678 .G65 1989], chapters 1,2, and 3
  2. Faigel, "Methods and issues in collection evaluation today," Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, 9 (1985), pages 21 - 35

Evaluation & weeding

  1. Weeding Library Collections [Z 703.6 .S55 1989], chapters 1 -6, 8 - 9, and 14
  2. Browse in Segal's Evaluating and weeding collections in small and medium-sized public libraries, {Z 703.6 .S45

Resource allocation & fund raising

  1. Carpenter, "Forecasting expenditures for library materials: approaches and techniques"
  2. Genaway, "Administering the allocated acquisitions budget: achieving a balanced matrix"
  3. Niles, "How I learned to stop worrying and love the budget"

Preservation

  1. Gorman, "Preservation in the research library: its past, present status, and encouraging future," Technical Services Today and Tomorrow {Z 688.5 T43 1990
  2. Browse in the Library Disaster Preparedness Handbook [Z 679.6 M67 1986], chapters 1 - 5, 7 and 8

Resource sharing

  1. Kachel, "Look inward before looking outward," School Library Media Quarterly, 23 (Winter, 1995), 101 - 113

Complaint handling

    Serebnick and Quinn, "Measuring diversity of opinion in public library collections," Library Quarterly, 65 (January, 1955), 29 - 51
  1. Geller, "The librarian as censor"
  2. Hole, "Who me, censor?"