Libraries – Collection development
Collection development librarians
Contents
- Purpose and value
- Organisation
- Scoping and selection
- Resource, description and standards
- Service delivery
- Glossary/Useful links
- Bibliography
- Home
Librarians in charge of collection development require national bibliographies (both local and foreign) to:
- Analyse available publications
- Select according to collection development criteria
- Become aware of future publications (e.g. via CIP records)
Information requirements from the national bibliography
To be useful for collection development, a national bibliography should offer subject access together with analysis of different aspects of publications.
Descriptive metadata requirements (for offline files or printed national bibliographies):
Complete bibliographic records should be presented as results. A link to further publisher data is also necessary in order to obtain:
- Price
- Availability (publication status)
- Terms and conditions (rights, technical requirements)
Search requirements (for online national bibliographies):
Typical access points required for collection development activities include:
- Subject headings, classification, keywords for searching on topics
- Date of publication
- Language/country of publication
- Publication type/genre/format
Sorting on several criteria is required for large result sets and meaningful clustering (e.g. using FRBR) is helpful.