Six Key Challenges for the Future of Collection Development

Ross Atkinson
Library Resources & Technical Services, vol. 50, no. 4, October 2007, pages 244-251

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Atkinson's perceptive and intellectually stimulating article lays out six challenges for consideration by attendees at the October, 2005 Janus Conference. Based upon wisdom and foresight, Atkinson called for libraries to solve these challenges by working cooperatively and collaboratively. Atkinson advocated that research libraries take the opportunity to forge a new era of active cooperation and to face these challenges head on in order for the art and science of collection development to thrive and

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Blackwell's Scholarship Award

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Honors the author or authors of the year's outstanding monograph, article or original paper in the field of acquisitions, collection development, and related areas of resources development in libraries.
2007 - Recipient(s)

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