Academic librarians have long grappled with issues of collection size, quality versus quantity, and maintaining a core collection. In previous eras, libraries provided access to content by acquiring ...

Building the collection is a core activity in any library. A school library collection is built to support the curriculum and provide for voluntary reading; an academic library collection is developed ...

Archives serve as a lens for people to understand the past and see firsthand accounts of history through photographs, newspapers and other documents. At ASU Library, millions of these documents and ...

Undoubtedly, the Collections Explorer exposes me to the nooks and crannies of Harvard Library’s vast collection in ways that ...

This year the Community College of Allegheny County culled around 30,000 books from its collection, and library staff claim they had little say. Experts say academic book weeding should be a careful, ...

Preus Library contains physical collections of over 320,000 volumes. The collection also includes Periodicals and a variety of more specialized resources. Most of the Preus Library materials circulate ...

The Law Library encompasses three floors within the law school and provides access to a comprehensive collection of current and historical Colorado legal materials as well as a substantial collection ...