Collection Management is the essential refereed quarterly journal that presents practical, research-based information about building, administering, preserving, assessing, and organizing library collections. The journal offers library professionals of all types crucial guidance in the fast-changing field of collection management, including the latest developments in sharing and providing access to resources, creating digital collections, preserving both traditional and digital library resources, applying technological developments to managing collections, training and developing staff, and managing and analyzing the administrative data associated with building collections, such as usage, licensing or rights, access, and financial issues.
Digital collections are the future for most libraries. Collection Management explores the future and emerging trends in the field, and provides reviews of relevant books, technological resources, and software. This useful resource examines technological advances that help librarians manage and assess collections, such as electronic resource management modules, utilities that provide journal coverage data, and developments in the preservation of library materials. Occasionally the journal also offers thematic issues that focus on specific issues developing in the field. This wide-ranging journal actively seeks articles that help library professionals understand how collection assessment tools and methods can help them improve their overall resource management and planning for the future, including how to effectively use staff, facilities, and computing resources.
Some of the other core topics Collection Management regularly examines are:
- Digital collection management
- Meeting staffing and training challenges
- Management for special collections and archive
- Data management concerns
- Risk and financial issues and strategies
- Consortial and cooperative collections
- Assessment tools and methods
- Decision making in the face of access vs. ownership
- Collection development focused on international and area studies
- The latest collection of management tools
