By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users.
Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the first edition of this book demonstrated the power and flexibility of "rightsizing," an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection. In the five years since Ward's first edition, the shared print infrastructure has grown in leaps and bounds, as has coordination among programs. With this revision, Miller addresses new options as well as the increasing urgency to protect at-risk titles as you reduce your physical collection. Readers will feel confident rightsizing their institution's own collections with this book's expert guidance on
By learning how to rightsize, you will ensure that both the collection and your institution's available physical spaces meet the needs of your library's users.
Honored with many accolades, including a starred review in Library Journal, the first edition of this book demonstrated the power and flexibility of "rightsizing," an approach that applies a scalable, rule-based strategy to help academic libraries balance stewardship of spaces and the collection. In the five years since Ward's first edition, the shared print infrastructure has grown in leaps and bounds, as has coordination among programs. With this revision, Miller addresses new options as well as the increasing urgency to protect at-risk titles as you reduce your physical collection. Readers will feel confident rightsizing their institution's own collections with this book's expert guidance on
Chapter 1 Background
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Mary E. Miller is the Director of Collection Management and Preservation at the University of Minnesota Libraries in Minneapolis, MN. She has written and spoken on archives and preservation, shared print programs, and consortial collection management. Her current research interests include print retention issues in academic libraries, risk factors that pertain to monographic retention commitments, models for determining the number of copies needed nationally to ensure survival of scarcely-held titles, and best practices for intentional, data-informed collection management, particularly during withdrawal projects. She holds a BA from the University of Illinois - Chicago, and an IMLS from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Suzanne M. Ward retired in 2017 from the Purdue University Libraries in West Lafayette, Indiana. She published the first edition of Rightsizing the Academic Library Collection in 2015. She has also written extensively on patron-driven acquisitions, publishing A Guide to Implementing and Managing Patron-Driven Acquisitions in 2012 and making presentations on the topic both nationally and internationally. Her research interests included print retention issues and the use of e-books in academic libraries. Ward holds a BA from the University of California at Los Angeles, an AMLS from the University of Michigan, and an MA from the University of Memphis.
"Project management principles are explored to step through the
process from initiation, planning, implementation, and on to
closure. This helps guide the reader through all the steps that
need to be considered with examples given to help understand and
streamline processes. In particular the JSTOR example, for print
journal withdrawal, makes it a replicable project for other
academic libraries to follow ... I think the principles of
rightsizing are imperative for a considered and holistic approach
to academic library collection management. The strategies contained
within this book are easy to follow, helpful, and will guide
readers through the deselection process now and in the future."
-- Journal of the Australian Library and Information
Association
"Highly informative for those who need clear guidance on
deselection criteria and how to plan for potential collaborations
to manage shared print [collections]."
-- Technical Services Quarterly
"I find 'rightsizing' a genuine upgrade from synonyms like weeding,
pruning, or deselection. Rather than focusing on what is wrong with
the removed materials and rather than acting solely or even
primarily in service of space constraints, collections rightsizing
seeks to examine materials through a user-centric lens. The
collections rightsizing mindset involves affirmative,
collaborative, and mindful choices of which materials to keep,
resulting in an optimally-sized, attractive, and useful collection
... The authors include plenty of details about how to actually
undertake such a project; examples throughout the text include
policies to shape and guide a project, print retention memoranda of
understanding (MOU) to ensure safety in rightsizing, removal
candidate lists (and processes for creating these lists), and
suggested procedures at all steps of the way."
-- Technicalities
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