Collection Development Challenges for the 21st Century Acquisitions Academic Librarian.

Michelle DeFazio

Herzog, S. (2004) Collection Development Challenges for the 21^st Century Acquisitions   Academic Librarian. The Acquisitions Librarian. 16:31-32, 149-162. http://dx.doi.org/10.1300/J101v16n31_14.

Summary: Susan Herzog shares helpful advice on how to hit the ground running as the new collection development librarian in an academic library. It shares suggestions about  tools  of the trade and online resources and gives advice about building relationships with the faculty.

Evaluation:  This article is slightly dated but extremely useful as it shares the basics about collection development in an academic library including whether or not there is an existing policy on the subject and how that can guide one.  It assumes that there are staff shortages and the librarian doing the job may never have taken a collection development course.