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This book represents an ongoing effort to fill the void in the library literature relating to collection development policies. The authors, whose experience each spans four decades as library educators and practitioners, created the book---as well as a forthcoming companion volume devoted to school libraries---to assist both library school students and professionals in the field in the compilation, revision, and implementation of collection development...

"This timely book explores important privacy issues in public, school, and academic libraries. In particular, the title discusses the effect that technology has had on personal privacy in these settings, including the impact of issues of accessibility to online databases and other online information sources on personal privacy. The laws affecting personal privacy and privacy in library settings are explained and discussed in depth. Special attention...

Pictorial study of the wide variety of striking contemporary architectural designs in cultural centers, including libraries, museums, art galleries and performing arts centers.

If your library's website is not as user-friendly as it could or should be, you need this book. A LITA guide, it is the most authoritative, current reference on usability testing for libraries. It gives you practical advice in clear, non-technical prose, plus success stories from 18 academic, public, corporate, and government libraries. Read it and you will learn what usability assessments are, why they are important for libraries, why you should...

"Library computer users are often novices and may not be aware that even seemingly innocuous information supplied to Web sites can be mined by government agencies, unscrupulous businesses, and criminals. Even the donated computers that libraries accept and pass on to others can reveal confidential information like social security numbers. The recent discovery that online service providers have been supplying vast quantities of data to government agencies...

"Since the 1950s, our country's libraries have followed a policy of "destroying to preserve": They have methodically dismantled their collections of original bound newspapers, cut up hundreds of thousands of so-called brittle books, and replaced them with microfilmed copies - copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with age. Half a century on, the results on this policy...