Developing Library and Information Center Collections, Fifth Edition

Chapters One Through Five Related Websites

Chapter 1: Information Age, Information Society

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The Digital Library: A Biography -- by D. Greenstein and S. E. Thorin. Council on Library and Information Resources, 2002.
http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub109abst.html

ipl2: Information You Can Trust -- The result of merging the Internet Public Library (IPL) and the Librarians' Internet Index (LII).

http://www.ipl.org/ 

NetLibrary
http://www.netlibrary.com/

2003 OCLC Environmental Scan: Pattern Recognition
http://www.oclc.org/membership/escan/

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.com

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Chapter 2: Information Needs Assessment

American Community Survey (ACS) -- From the U.S. Census Bureau.
http://www.census.gov/acs/www/

Community Analysis -- Information from William Robinson at UTK.
http://web.utk.edu/~wrobinso/560_lec_commun-analysis.html

Community Analysis for Libraries and Librarians
http://skyways.lib.ks.us/pathway/ca_homepage.html

Library Research Service: Community Analysis  
http://www.lrs.org/public/community.php 

Public Library Geographic Database
http://www.geolib.org/PLGDB.cfm

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Chapter 3: Collection Development Policies

AcqWeb’s Directory of Policies on the Web
http://www.acqweb.org/cd_policy.html

Electronic Collections Policies
http://www.library.yale.edu/~okerson/ecd.html

Library of Congress: Collection Development and the Internet
http://lcweb.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html

U.S. National Library of Medicine: Collection Development Manual
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/acquisitions/cdm/

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Chapter 4: Selection Process in Practice

BookPage
http://www.bookpage.com

Brodart TIPS-- Information on the Title Information Preview Service (TIPS).
http://www.books.brodart.com/Content3.aspx?P=46

ChoiceReviews.online -- From the American Library Association.
http://www.cro2.org

CM Magazine: Canadian Review of Materials -- From the Manitoba Library Association.
http://www.umanitoba.ca/cm/

COLLDV-L: Library Collection Development Discussion List
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Genrefluent -- "The world of genre fiction from the author of Genreflecting."
http://www.genrefluent.com

H-Net Reviews -- Reviews of scholarly materials in the arts and humanities.
http://www.h-net.org/reviews

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Chapter 5. Producers of Information Materials

Dustbooks -- Ordering information for Dustbooks publications, including the Small Press Record of Books in Print.
http://www.dustbooks.com

The Small Press Bookwatch -- From Midwest Book Review.
http://www.midwestbookreview.com/sbw/

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Contact the authors: G. Edward Evans and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro 

Last Updated: May 2005