Collection Development or Collection Management? The latter term is the more traditional and is coming back in vogue. Collection Development has its roots in American Library lingo and is sometimes meant to mean the buiding of the collection, not so much its maintenance.
So what is collection development? It is selecting, aquiring, evaluating, preserving and ultimately disposing of items in the collection. In short it's the library side of the work the teacher librarian does.
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| What to select? A perennial question for a TL. |
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