Climate change is one of the biggest threats to our continued existence. While resources and research about climate are readily available, what do public libraries need be doing, as last free spaces, bridge gap between complex information community action? This extended abstract, based on a larger paper, explores various ways can active members their communities promote conversations with speci...

The process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. This article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

This paper describes an ongoing doctoral research project, supported by the British Library and titled “Conceptualising the library collection for the digital world: a case study of social enterprise.” Relatively little has been written about the conceptual ideas associated with collection in a library context. Based on interview and survey data collected from library and information practition...

The Russian publishing market is analyzed from the library’ perspective, as book and distribution dynamics, including both trends in distributing different formats through various channels technologies, affect significantly library collection development. following problems are indicated: 1) completeness accessibility of information on scientific literature being published; 2) procurability. an...

the process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. this article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

the process of collection development, collection generating and obtaining information is of basic debates in libraries and information centers which a lot of articles have been written about the methods of collection development of information as well as the application of information technology, accordingly, to this day. this article, as opposed to other articles, which are about the prevaili...

THEFOCI OF THIS ARTICLE ARE THE SELECTION AND decision-making aspects of the Edelmen model of collection development. The authors review the challenges facing library/information studies education and the place of collection development within that context. The implications for the library/information center’s repertoire of the rise of a whole new class of resources is also considered. The auth...