Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Challenges and Way Forward (Published)
The core of the library is the collection. Library, being an information bank, its pivotal role is enshrined in the basic mandate of stocking information materials to meet the needs of users. The quality of the collection remains the litmus test of service delivery effectiveness in the academic world. It is the functional domain of collection development to peg collection quality high. Well-conceived collection development encompasses a range of activities such as selection, acquisition, user studies, stock evaluation, weeding and interlibrary cooperation. None of these activities is inconsequential in the bid to achieve high quality collection as they all work in synergy. The collection development which composed of the information resources, constitutes the basic instrument of service delivery in the library. Thus, librarians involved in collection development roles must now reach as far as possible into the larger world of prints and web scholarly content to add, organize, promote and make quality material discoverable and accessible. Librarians need to expose the research materials housed in repositories and on the open web, even as these materials are often hidden from scholars due to lack of indexing, inadequate crawling by major search engines, existence of poor quality metadata, or a lack of librarian effort at marketing of material that might maximize usage and accessibility. Therefore, Collection development librarians and subject specialists are best poised to know which public domain materials might best be needed and made more accessible to institutional scholars and to local communities.
Citation: Olubiyo P.O. (2023) Collection Development in Academic Libraries: Challenges and Way Forward, International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, Vol.9, No.3, pp.1-9,
Keywords: Academic Libraries, collection development
Organization, Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials: A Case Study of Lagos State University Library, Ojo-Lagos (Published)
Basically, since the main purpose of every library is to collect, organize, preserve, conserve and provide knowledge and information materials available to users, hence the researchers decides to examined and understudy the trends in collection development department and how information resources are preserved in Lagos State University Library, Ojo-Lagos. This study revealed that the collection development in library helps in conserving information resources in order to reflect the library mission which is collect, organize, preserve, conserve. Also, this study recommended that policies in collection development should be given serious consideration in the building library collections. Therefore, there is need for tertiary institutions especially Lagos State University to provide adequate funding for resources and maintain a good and up-to-date maintenance ethics for better preservation and conservation of the information resources.
Citation: Makinde Omawumi O., Monu John Oluwaseyi, Okusaga, Tajudeen and Ekeh, Esther Motunrayo (2022) Organization, Preservation and Conservation of Library Materials: A Case Study of Lagos State University Library, Ojo-Lagos, International Journal of Library and Information Science Studies, Vol.8, No.1, pp.19-32
Keywords: Conservation, Information resources, collection development, university libraries