Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management

✍ Scribed by G.E. Gorman

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 41 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1464-9055
• DOI: 10.1016/j.lcats.2004.08.007

✦ Synopsis

are less assured. Lavoie advocates strategies for organizing preservation resources to realize preservation objectives efficiently.

Smith incorporates the respondents' comments to each speaker into her concluding essay. She questions whether the present preservation infrastructure is appropriate for the new information environment. While not providing the answers to the serious questions about the future of digital and print preservation, each author raises crucial concerns on multiple facets of the problem and sounds a clear call to action before we lose a large portion of our cultural heritage. This is highly recommended for academic libraries.