Keeping a printed book in a campus library comes with steep costs. How are campus libraries evolving?

Levine-Clark, Michael. “Can We Have it All? Do We Want it All? The Evolution of Academic Library Collection Development,” Invited Keynote. INFORUM Conference o…

White authors reign in book reviews, bestseller lists, literary awards and Amazon.com recommendations.

Cliff Lynch invited me to give one of UC Berkeley iSchool's "Information Access Seminars" entitled The Half-Empty Archive . It was based on ...

CREW: A Weeding Manual for Modern Libraries (PDF) revised in 2012 to include a section on e-books! CREW: Addendum on e-books (PDF) addendum to CREW 2008 edition Teaching Resources: Weeding with the CREW Method (PPT) Attack with CREW Public (PPT) Making Your Case Weeding Exercise Public (Word) Weeding Case Study Public (Word) Revised and Updated by Jeanette Larson, 2008

Meditation on how you gauge quality or come up with coll-dev guidelines for a (born-)digital collection. Size ain't everything. Interrelationships, diversity, thematic strengths also count.

Interesting take on the coll-dev challenges of selecting ebooks where the usual review apparatus isn't present.