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Collection Development and Assessment: Books and Resources

This guide is for Collection Development, Management, and Creating Assessments

Electronic Resources

Northwestern University Assessment LibGuide
OCLC's Comparative Collection Assessment For Books
Texas State University's Library Collection Assessments
Creating the Conspectus
OCLC's background history on the RLG Conspectus method
Library of Congress Classification Outline

RCL: Resources for College Libraries
Premier list of core print and electronic resources for academic libraries.

Articles

A dual approach to assessing collection development and acquisitions for academic libraries by Robert Danielson
Publication Date: 2012
How the WLN works for Small Libraries by Burns Davis
Publication Date: Vol. 10, Issue 20, 1998
article from the Acquisitions Librarian

Selection of Books