PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

Fair, Jeremiah
CB

Mickelson, A. (2016). Practice makes perfect. Library Journal, 141, 34-36. Retrieved from http://web.b.ebscohost.com.libaccess.sjlibrary.org/ehost/detail/detail?sid=a5794a3c-fb6b-4e84-8a8e-ffe98744c05d%40sessionmgr102&vid=11&hid=107&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=117655292&db=llf

Summary of article: A beginner's overview to the current climate and challenges for public libraries in terms of collection development. Mickelson goes over several factors that collection development and building are currently undergoing in the internet age including: Budgets and formats, Tech tools and the human touch, Donations and self-publishers, and weeding and maintenance.

Analysis: While just a basic overview, this article does a great job of describing the base foundation of collection development for public libraries. Mickelson interviews a few librarians on how they go about collection development and building to get the current climate of how they go about doing it. A very great part of this article in my opinion is that Mickelson lists several of the websites and databases that the current librarians use to help them make their selections for their collections. This includes LibraryReads, Edelweiss, NPR Books, and Netgalley. As someone who is very new to the library world, I had no idea of the existence of such sites.