Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities

Linda S Katz, Sally J Kenney, Helen Kinsella

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN: 9780789003683
• eBook ISBN: 9781317951568
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Library & Information Science
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Acquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities is a one-of-a-kind guide on the procedures, approaches, and principles needed to make sound decisions in acquiring materials in various areas of the humanities. It gives you an inside look at managerial concerns in documentary delivery, changing budgetary needs, and fluctuations in journal prices and helps you address many of the important questions in acquisitions and collection development within both traditional and technological environments.As contributing author Dennis Dillon puts it, the ultimate goal of humanities librarians "is not to acquire information bytes and bits, but to promote integrity: integrity of texts, integrity of selection, the integrity of the collection, and the integrity of the library and its ultimate purpose." This objective underlies this multifaceted and comprehensive collection of articles, as the authors address many interesting issues, developments, and challenges in the field, including:

• selecting candidates for digitization and producing e-texts
• collecting in areas that don't have immediate utility or that may be unpopular
• what librarians need to know about the humanities as a discipline in order to effectively meet the informational and technological needs of their constituencies
• online discussion groups as useful sources of webliographic information
• cooperative collection building
• the importance of maintaining a high degree of local ownership for materials
• the principles, criteria, and tools needed to develop a Native American studies collection
• document-driven and use-driven approaches to collecting
• acquiring and preserving records that chronicle the role played by African Americans in the United States'developmentAcquisitions and Collection Development in the Humanities can help professional librarians, graduate school faculty, and students in information and library science acquire the knowledge and skills necessary for building a broadly based and academically responsive collection. It will certainly help you keep up with changes in the information environment and show you how the tools you've developed for selecting traditional library materials will be useful as you grapple with electronic texts, "spider" search mechanisms on the Web, becoming a webliographer, and budget shortfalls.

Index

A. Gerits & Son, b.v., 166

Abingdon Press, 72

Academic libraries. See also names of specific universities and colleges

Latin American and Latino collections of, 126-127, 128

A Cappella Books, 83-84

Access

to collections, 46

definition of, 48-49

to electronic texts, 22-23, 36, 52

model of, 49-50

ownership versus, 47, 48-50, 97

document delivery systems and, 53-57

management and, 57-59

through networking, 47

Access to Media (Intner), 48-49

Acquisitions, through collection building, 45-46

African American Autobiography: A Collection of Critical Essays, 117

African American Book Review, 116

African American materials, 3, 111-124

historical background of, 112-113

major collections and collectors, 113-123

children and young adult literature, 122-123

film and visual arts, 120-121

literature, 119-120

music, 120

performing arts, 120

philosophy, 121-122

poetry, 118

religion, 122

theater and drama, 118-119

African American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture, The (Hams), 123

African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology (Sherman, ed.), 118

African-American Religion: Research Problems and Resources for the 1990s, 122

African American Theater: A Historical and Critical Analysis (Hay), 119

African-American Visual Aesthetics: A Post Modernist View (Briskell), 120-121

Afro-American Cinematic Experience: An Annotated Bibliography and Filmography (Hyatt, ed.), 120-121

Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955 (Davis and Harris, eds.), 119

Afro-American Poets Since 1955, 118

Afro-American Religious Studies: A Comprehensive Bibliography With Locations in American Libraries (Williams and Brown), 122

Afro-Braziliana: A Working Bibliography (Wesley), 114

Akwesane Notes: A Journal of Native and Natural Peoples, 149

Alaine Locke and...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• The Electronic Environment
• Disciplinarity and Format
• Cultural Genres
• Index