Academic librarians have long grappled with issues of collection size, quality versus quantity, and maintaining a core collection. In previous eras, libraries provided access to content by acquiring ...

Can libraries play a role in jump-starting and ensuring success for sustainable development initiatives and projects? Can they support individual citizens, community institutions, and businesses ...

Massachusetts state legislators are working to pass a bill that will provide clear guidelines for the removal of materials from libraries, protect librarians from disciplinary action and ensure that ...

Corpus Christi Public Libraries has an updated collection development policy — a move some believe may mean an end to lengthy discussions that have spanned more than a year on whether some of the ...

As stated above, the Collection Development Policy is designed to support and reflect the mission of Connecticut College as a whole, along with the mission of its Information Services division. A.

As part of my dissertation in 2020, I researched the collection development policies of academic libraries. I looked specifically at universities and colleges with American Library Association ...

Bias when forming a collection of fine and decorative arts has been addressed through heuristics or mental shortcuts. Here, I approach bias differently to emphasize how important it is not only when ...

When Isiah Harris was growing up, he’d visit the Columbus Metropolitan Library’s Gahanna and Main Library branches with his mother. The African American Fiction Collection, which has its own section, ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...