Collection Management Basics

This eighth edition offers students and working professionals the tools to manage the complex process of creating appropriate collections of resources for all types of libraries.

Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro, MLS, is Director of Collection Development Strategies at the University of Maryland Libraries (UMD), USA, where she provides leadership for the collections and manages the collections budget. Her prior work experience includes serving as Manager of Staff Learning and Development, and later Librarian for the College of Journalism at UMD, as Associate Director of Learning Resources at the Alexandria Campus of Northern Virginia Community College, and as Librarian for the Northern Virginia Center of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Her research interests are in the areas of collection management, instruction, and emerging technologies in libraries.