Collection Management: a Concise Introduction.(Book Review)

Collection Management: A Concise Introduction John Kennedy. Wagga Wagga NSW Centre For Information Studies Charles Sturt University 2002 vi 144pp (Topics in Australasian Library and Information Studies No 19) ISBN 1-876938-18-8

Notwithstanding occasional predictions to the contrary, collection management remains at the heart of all librarianship, whether we think of a major research library attempting to balance limited funds across multiple fields of knowledge, of a public library trying to make sure that the books on its shelves are the ones its patrons want to read, or of a small special library aiming to provide up-to-the-minute information for its particular…