Wasted Words?: Current Trends in Collection Development Policies: Part 1

The major goals and elements of this survey, as well as the resulting data, stem from previous research by this group of authors. The initial work was presented at the 2011 Charleston Conference and appears in the proceedings as “Something’s Gotta Give: Is There a Future for the Collection Developme...

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Hauptverfasser:	Matt Torrence, Audrey Powers, Megan Sheffield
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Academic libraries Anthropology Applied anthropology Applied sciences Behavioral sciences Collection acquisitions Collection development Collection management Communications Cultural anthropology Cultural institutions Economic disciplines Economics Employment Information professionals Information science Labor economics Librarians Libraries Library collections Library management Library operations Library science Library surveys Occupations Professional communication Research methods Scholarly communication School libraries Social sciences Survey methods Survey research
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Zusammenfassung:	The major goals and elements of this survey, as well as the resulting data, stem from previous research by this group of authors. The initial work was presented at the 2011 Charleston Conference and appears in the proceedings as “Something’s Gotta Give: Is There a Future for the Collection Development Policy?” With this effort, the focus was the examination of the environment and landscape of collection development/management, with special attention to the primary questions mentioned in the abstract. Following a thorough review of the literature and various best practices, the time arrived to collect original data on these topics. Following