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The article focuses on a significant study titled "A Model to Determine Optimal Numbers of Monograph Copies for Preservation in Shared Print Collections" by Ian Bogus and colleagues, addressing key aspects of shared print collections. Topics include the development of a model and spreadsheet tool for calculating the probability of retaining at least one usable copy of a monograph title in shared print collections.

The article discusses cataloging practices for library resources, particularly focusing on the challenges posed by serial publications. It emphasizes that cataloging decisions are influenced not only by the nature of the item but also by how it is acquired and intended to be used within the library's collection management.

The article talks about the inordinate maps of knowledge from the bibliographers' guild. Topics discussed include promoting, marketing, and interpreting collections and resources; preparing budgets, managing allocations, and demonstrating responsible stewardship of funds; and collection development and management practitioners called selectors, bibliographers and collections librarians.

The article talks about the fundamentals of collection development and management librarian. Topics discussed include promoting, marketing, and interpreting collections and resources; preparing budgets, managing allocations, and demonstrating responsible stewardship of funds; and collection development and management practitioners called selectors, bibliographers and collections librarians.

The article explores ways of conceiving, managing, and integrating the library's collection with its mission and goals. Topics discussed include trends and factors that could shape collection management. Topics discussed include financial pressure on universities and colleges due to growing scrutiny from various stakeholders; need of libraries to justify decision making with empirical evidence using various approaches and data.

In the article, the author discusses how can libraries learn from Amazon.com for their collection development and management. Also cited are the strategy by Amazon to use sub-genres to further classify its book offerings, some sub-genres in Amazon's mystery, thrillers and suspense genre like supernatural, suspense, and technothrillers, as well as the benefits and disadvantages of using sub-genres in collection development.

The article explores ways for librarians to deal with collection management in the digital era is the role of archives and special collections. It highlights challenges associated with the gathering and curating of rare and unique documents, including primary source materials. It reports the concern of research libraries that lies between commodity and non-commodity documents.

The article offers information regarding Role of Consortia in Collection Management. It mentions that there are certainly many other important activities involving consortial collaboration such as shared cataloguing resource sharing, shared library systems, and digital repositories. It states that there are many strengths to the consortial role in collection management.

In the article, the author discusses several topics in the library sector as of March 2017, particularly open access (OA) and collection management. Also cited are the challenges of scholarly communication and preservation as cited by Mary Case, the criteria in determining the OA publishing programs to support, and the importance of aligning policy and practice with decision-making.

The article discusses the importance of collaboration in providing technical services for U.S. libraries, such as collection management and digital preservation. The author cites several models for sharing technical services infrastructure and developing complementary collections, like the Cornell University Libraries and Columbia University Libraries (2CUL) model, Great Britain's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), the HathiTrust Digital Library, and shared print repositories (SPRs).

The author offers an overview of the American Library Association (ALA) meetings she attended as of May 2012. These include the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging and Metadata Management Section (CaMMS) Copy Cataloging Interest Group's meeting, the Library Information Technology Association/ALCTS Linked Library Data Interest Group's meeting, and "Do I Own These E-Books or Not?: The Adventures of Jo Budler, Kansas State Librarian."

The author discusses the role of libraries in the 21st century and how they meet the new demands from users. She recalls the issues presented during the launch of the Bicentennial Conference on Bibliographic Control for the New Millennium and the solutions offered such as the New Generation Catalogs, New Generation Libraries, and New Generation Technical Services. She describes the new focus of libraries on networked collections such as the Orbis Cascade Alliance instead of library collections.

The article discusses several problems in descriptive cataloging of periodicals as well as tips to address such problems. These problems include title change in periodicals such as the "Journal of library metadata" (JLM), and the rule on the use of acronyms as titles of magazines such as the "Princeton alumni weekly." It also mentions magazines that pose a main entry problem, such as "Opera news," as well as cataloging serials and electronic titles.

The article discusses practical problems that are likely to arise with implementation of Resource Description and Access (RDA) which advance advertising claims would make the exercise of judgment easier for catalogers. The two main problems could be summed up thus: materials collected by libraries have become more varied and sophisticated since RDA first appeared in 1978, and catalogers as a group have not developed greater inclination to take risks. The author, then, is of the view that great challenges await the third millennium's new cataloging rules.

The article identifies four trends that are relevant to the work of collection development and management librarians from presentations during the November 2018 Charleston Conference in South Carolina. The trends include the importance of better data for effective decision making, changes in the responsibilities and organization of collection departments, and open access and a licensing agreement between libraries and publishers.

The article offers the author's insights on the collection management of small libraries in the 21st century. It says that differences in the collection management of libraries in the contemporary period through internet and computers can affect the selection and weeding of resources. The author worries that the abandonment of print collections might affect the poor children's access to library services. It emphasizes that small libraries should collect prints for the universal library.

The article discusses the library education and collection development in the third millennium. As the newest generation of readers mature, they tend to resort into 24/7 online information resources rather than go to libraries. Anecdotal evidence indicates most college students and younger people who grew up in computer age turn first to digital data to seek information and tend to give up when their computers can't produce exactly what they need, becoming too dependent to technology.

The article offers news briefs on library services vendors as of January/February 2014. EBSCO Information Services received an excellence award for its achievements in developing learning content. The Harvard University Press partnered with German publishing house De Gruyter for the virtual sale of all published books since its founding. Serials Solutions launched Intota Assessment, an analytics service using its own cloud-library services platform to assist libraries in collection management.

The article focuses on censorship in libraries. Topics discussed include the books dealing with censorship such as "True Stories of Censorship Battles in America's Libraries" edited by Valerie Nye and Kathy Barco and "True Stories of Censorship Battles" by Jean Weihs, the Library Bill of Rights, and an excerpt from the poem "Manifesto" by Ellen Hopkins, in honor of Banned Books Week 2010.

The author relates her ideas on collection management. She uses the term collection management in describing the tasks addressing collections once they are acquired as physical entities. The tasks usually include decisions on withdrawing, moving to storage, canceling, repairing and others. In the University of Minnesota, a centralized approach is aimed at managing collections within the context of user needs, local and national digitization initiatives, digitized resources and others.

The article reports on news briefs of professional interest to librarianship. It reports on the report released by the Library of Congress (LC) on the challenges presented by copyright and related laws to digital preservation. It also reports on the $475,700 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant given to Duke University for the design of a new library system. It announces that Drexel University will open a Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento, California in January 2009.

The article provides the author's insights concerning library management and information science. She discussed the issues and controversies in library science and library community. She also noted some aspects in the field of information science services including library collection and resources and cataloging policy.