Building a School Library Collection Plan: A Beginning Handbook with Internet Assist

Designed for beginning professionals, this handbook with and accompanying web site covers the creation of collections in school libraries using the collection mapping process created by Loertscher. Each page of the book contains a single idea andprovides guidance with examples for collection mapping, implementation of a collection development plan, making the collection work, and evaluating the collection. The Internet site contains bibliographies, web sources, and useful collection development materials that need updating on a regular basis. David V. Loertscher, Blanche Woolls and Janice Felker; Hi Willow Research and Publishing; 1999; ISBN 0-931510-74-0, 978-0-931510-74-8