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In this sweeping revision of a text that has become an authoritative standard, expert instructor and librarian Peggy Johnson addresses the art of controlling and updating library collections, whether located locally or accessed remotely. Each chapter offers complete coverage of one aspect of collection development and management, including numerous suggestions for further reading and narrative case studies exploring the issues. Johnson thoroughly considersTraditional management topics such as organization of the collection, weeding, staffing, and policymakingMaintaining productive relationships with vendors and publishers, and other important purchasing and budgeting topicsThe effects of rapidly changing information delivery and access technologies, the evolving needs and expectations of library users, and new roles for subject specialistsJohnson offers a comprehensive tour of this essential discipline and situates the fundamental ideas of collection development and management in historical and theoretical perspective, bringing this modern classic fully up to date.



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Peggy Johnson

Peggy Johnson is a frequent speaker and trainer on collection development and management. She has published several books, including ALA Edition's bestselling Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management, and numerous journal articles. She edited the peer-reviewed journal, Library Resources & Technical Services, for more than nine years, ending her term in December 2012, and continues to edit the journal, Technicalities: Information Forum for the Technical Services Professional. Prior to retiring from the University of Minnesota Libraries, she served as Associate University Librarian. Peggy is past president of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) and received the ALCTS Ross Atkinson Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009. She has consulted on library development in Morocco, Rwanda, Uganda, Senegal, and China, and on technical services and collection development and management in the U.S. Peggy teaches library management as an adjunct professor in the St. Catherine University MLIS program. She is a graduate of St. Olaf College and has a Masters from the University of Chicago Graduate Library School and a Masters of Management and Administration from Metropolitan State University.



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