Recruiting, Educating, and Training Librarians for Collection Development

PEGGY JOHNSON is Assistant Director, St. Paul Campus Libraries, University of Minnesota. She was previously Collection Development Officer, University of Minnesota Libraries, which has a collection of over 5 million volumes. She has consulted on library development in Uganda, Rwanda, and Morocco, and she has published several journal articles and books, including Guide to Technical Services Resources (1994).SHEILA S. INTNER is a Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at Simmons College. Her books include Circulation Policy in Academic, Public, and School Libraries (1987) and Cataloging: The Professional Development Cycle (1991), both published by Greenwood Press.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Overview Book Selection and Collection Building: Comments on the Art by Bill Katz Recruiting for Collection Development The Professionalization of Acquisitions and Collection Development by Terry L. Allison and Marion T. Reed Recruiting as Competition: Why Choose Collection Development? by Eugene L. Wiemers, Jr. Late Awakenings: Recruiting Subject Specialists to Librarianship and Collection Development by Michael Keller Recruiting Non-Bibliocentric Collection Builders by Sheila S. Intner Educating for Collection Development Collection Development in the Library and Information Science Curriculum by Paul Metz Among the Disciplines: The Bibliographer in the I World by Michael T. Ryan Collection Development Is More Than Selecting a Title: Educating for a Variety of Responsibilities by Peggy Johnson Should Courses in Acquisitions and Collection Development Be Combined or Separate? by Thomas E. Nisonger The Practicum in Collection Development: A Debate by Liz Futas Training for Collection Development Training for Success: Integrating the New Bibliographer into the Library by George J. Soete The Conspectus as an On-site Training Tool by Anthony W. Ferguson Training Existing Staff to Assume Collection Development Responsibilities by D. Whitney Coe and Joseph P. Consoli Professional and Survival Imperatives by Gay N. Dannelly Implications for the Future Collection Development in the Year 2025 by F. W. Lancaster Selected Bibliography Index