Collection Development and Management

Abstract

T o sum up the collection development and management literature published in 2011-12, Liz Chapman, director of Library Services, London School of Economics and Political Science, does it best: "Our fundamental responsibilities in collection development have not changed, but our methods have."1 Much of the collection management and development literature in 2011 and 2012 focused on activities in response to two main factors: limited budgets and the need for more or redefined space. Both these factors have been a reality for many years, but projects that started at the beginning of the most recent recession, plus the continuing growth of the e-book industry and the availability of open access (OA) resources, are now more reported in the library literature. This paper reports on the development of these trends.This overview does not include all available literature on collection management and development from 2011 and 2012, but it focuses on a significant portion of what has been written and identifies trends. Both EBSCO's Library, Information Science and Technology Abstracts (LISTA) and Library Literature and Information Science Full Text databases were searched for relevant literature. While there is significant overlap in the two databases, each contains unique journals, and most resources consulted for this review are from these databases. Additional searches were conducted using Google to gain information on various organizations and programs. The author also consulted several publishers' recent catalogs, including ALA Publishing (Neal-Schuman and the ALA Store) and Libraries Unlimited to find more relevant monographic publications than those titles retrieved from database searches. Most literature retrieved focused on practices and trends in academic libraries, and literature on other types of libraries was

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