Lorrie McAllister is Associate University Librarian for Collection Services and Analysis at Arizona State University, where she is responsible for information resources services related to all segments of the print and digital collections lifecycle, including facilitation of access to information resources through selection, acquisition, licensing, description, management, access, and preservation. McAllister also advocates for strategic initiatives and projects through establishing partnerships, working with collaborators, and writing grants.
Shari Laster is the Head of Open Stack Collections at Arizona State University Library. She has extensive prior experience as a government information librarian.
The former Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) are now Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a new division of ALA. Its mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning.
"The essays here are all well-written and would be accessible to
anyone, information professional or not, interested in the question
of whether print has a future in an environment where almost
everywhere in academia print collections are being culled or seeing
funding diverted from them in the interest of enhancing digital
resource availability or freeing up library floor space for other
activities ... Eminently readable and consistently
interesting."
-- Journal of the Australian Library and Information
Association
"Recommended for any librarians with a print and/or digital
collection development responsibility, as well as those whose roles
may overlap with wider policy revision concerns, such as:
digitization project management, consortia! responsibilities, and
reference or instructional duties with first-hand experience of
user interactions with the collection. In particular, it would be
suitable for librarians whose institutions are reconsidering
collections after a change initiative, such as budget cuts, a new
administration, an upcoming renovation, or similar."
-- Technical Services Quarterly
"I highly recommend [this] refreshing exploration of contemporary
issues in library collection development and management ... Each
essay contributes to a multifaceted examination of contemporary
library collection portfolios with an emphasis on the role of print
content. At the same time, each essay stands alone and merits
reflection and further consideration by the reader."
-- Technicalities
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