Collection Assessment and Management

Gilley, Morgan 

APA Citation:

Kachel, D. E. (1997). Collection assessment and management for school libraries: preparing for cooperative collection development. Greenwood Press.

Summary:

Inside this book, it goes into detail about the stages of collection development. Ms. Kachel goes through the stages of a collection and how to keep the collection circulating. Several appendices cover in more detail collection codes and when to weed out a collection. This is a highly informative book, which is nice because it covers the steps of a collection and how to maintain it. I thought the coolest in this book was how Kachel took the reader through the steps of a collection in order. It was nice to have a book that details a collection and how to get the most out of it.

Evaluation:

This book has so much information about collections and the assessment of them. It shares information about managing a collection specifically for school libraries, but it can also be used to an extent for public or private collections. The author also has an evaluation survey at the end for the librarian to use to see what they should weed out or not. There is so much information inside this that it could also be used as a desk reference book for any library.