Re: Collection Development HIstory?

Dear Colleagues -- A huge thank you to those who replied to my request
of 5 January (see below).  As promised, I'm copying in a list
(organized and formatted) of citations that were suggested.  I'll also
try to attach, if this colldv list accepts attachments.  All best
wishes, Ann Okerson

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CD Bibliography
January 22, 2017

Bobick, James E.  Collection Development Organization and Staffing in
ARL libraries. Washington, DC, Office of University Management
Studies, ARL, 1987.

Casson, Lionel. Libraries in the Ancient World.  New Haven, CT, Yale
University Press, 2001.

Cenzer, Pamela S. & Gozzi, Cynthia I.  Evaluating Acquisitions and
Collections Management.  New York.  Haworth Press, 1991.

Cole, John Young. Book Collectors of Stanford: an eclectic eight who
shaped the Stanford University libraries.  Sacramento, CA, California
State Library Foundation, 1991.

Freeman, Michael Stewart. "Almost a Unified Library: Bryn Mawr,
Haverford, and Swarthmore College Library Cooperation during the
1940s," in Libraries & Culture 32/1 (1997): 1-37.

Hale, Dawn, ed.  Shared Collections: collaborative stewardship.
Chicago, ALA Editions, 2016.

Hill, Joanne Schneider, Hannaford, William E.  Collection Development
in College Libraries.  Chicago, IL, American Library Association,
1991.

Johnson, Peggy.  "Collection Development in the Best of Times and the
Worst of Times," in Commemorating the past, celebrating the present,
creating the future: papers in observance of the 50th anniversary of
the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services.
Chicago, American Library Association, ALCTS papers on library
technical services and collections; no. 16, edited by Pamela Bluh.

Johnson, Peggy. Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management,
3rd edition.  Chicago, IL, ALA Editions, 2014.

Kraus, Joe Walker.  Book Collections of Five Colonial College
Libraries: a subject analysis.  1960 Dissertation.

Lee, Sul H.  Declining Acquisitions Budgets: allocation, collection
development, and impact communication.  New York, Haworth Press, 1993.

Osburn, Charles & Ross Atkinson.  Collections Management: a new
treatise.  Greenwich, CT, JAI Press, 1991.

Pastine, Maureen.  Collection Development: past and future. New York:
Haworth, 1996.

Radford, Neil A. The Carnegie Corporation and the Development of
American College Libraries, 1928-1941.  Chicago, ALA, 1984.

Sappol, Michael, Laura Lindgren, Arne Svenson.  Hidden treasure: the
National Library of Medicine.  Bethesda, MD, National Library of
Medicine.  New York, Blast Books, Inc., [2012]

Taborsky, Theresa, Patricia Lenkowski, and others.  Collection
Development Policies for College Libraries.  Chicago, IL, College and
Research Libraries, 1989.

Wagner, Ralph D.  A History of the Farmington Plan.  Lanham, MD,
Scarecrow Press, 2002.

Wood, Richard J. and Katina Strauch, eds.  Collection Assessment: A
Look at the RLG Conspectus. Haworth Press, 1992.


On Thu, Jan 5, 2017 at 1:46 PM, Ann Okerson <aokerson_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All:  anyone know of a compilation of essays, or individual essays,
> about the history of collection development in the US -- like Farmington
> Plan, Conspectus, and all those canonical cooperative things we read about
> in our earlier careers?  Can you recommend or know someone who can?  I even
> recall reviewing such a book or two back in the day, but now can't put my
> hands on the title or any of it.
>
> Thanks much, Ann Okerson/CRL  (aokerson_at_gmail.com)