Collection Development for a New Century in the School Library Media Center » (New Edition)

W. BERNARD LUKENBILL is Professor, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin.

A complete resource guide to collection development for school library media specialists in the 21st century

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One of the Guides in School Librarianship, Lukenbill's book covers nine general areas with a selected bibliography organized around five themes that affect collection development: social and cultural action, management and decision making, creativity and the production of information and literature, collection development and aesthetics, and technology and collection development. While including the usual practical topics such as tools and aids for selection, policy development, and protecting the collection from censorship, other chapters include sections on the development of national standards for school libraries; educational, technological, and demographic changes; various theories that affect collection development; literary aesthetics; and the creative process. This text is one of the more reflective, theoretical, and historical on school library collection development, making it a useful followup to practical titles, such as Collection Program in Schools by Phillis J. Van Orden and Kay Bishop (Libraries Unlimited, 2001), which are better for users needing nuts-and-bolts, how-to-do-it information. Index. Biblio. 2002, Greenwood, 224p. PLB Chelton