Recruiting, educating, and training librarians for collection development

• Other Authors: Johnson, Peggy 1948-, Intner, Sheila S
• Format: Unknown
• Language: English
• Published: Westport, Conn. Greenwood Press 1994
• Series: New directions in information management no. 33
• Subjects: Collection development (Libraries) > United States; Librarians > Recruiting > United States; Library education > United States
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• Physical Description: xiv, 245 pages 25 cm
• ISBN: 0313285616
• ISSN: 0887-3844

At a time of shrinking budgets and increasing demands, libraries are facing problems in meeting their needs for new collection development specialists. This volume proposes creative solutions to the three significant problems experienced by library administrators: attracting new collection development librarians, educating them in appropriate library school programs, and training them to perform their jobs. The chapters in this book, written by leading collection development officers, practitioners, and educators, cover innovative ways of looking at the entire range of collection development activities, from goals and objectives in staff development for collection work to scenarios from the next millennium.