About the Author

Lorrie McAllister is Associate University Librarian for Collection Services and Analysis at Arizona State University, where she is responsible for information resources services related to all segments of the print and digital collections lifecycle, including facilitation of access to information resources through selection, acquisition, licensing, description, management, access, and preservation. McAllister also advocates for strategic initiatives and projects through establishing partnerships, working with collaborators, and writing grants.

Shari Laster is the Head of Open Stack Collections at Arizona State University Library. She has extensive prior experience as a government information librarian.

The former Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS), the Library Information Technology Association (LITA), and the Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA) are now Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures, a new division of ALA. Its mission is to cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning.

Reviews

"The essays here are all well-written and would be accessible to anyone, information professional or not, interested in the question of whether print has a future in an environment where almost everywhere in academia print collections are being culled or seeing funding diverted from them in the interest of enhancing digital resource availability or freeing up library floor space for other activities ... Eminently readable and consistently interesting."
-- Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association

"Recommended for any librarians with a print and/or digital collection development responsibility, as well as those whose roles may overlap with wider policy revision concerns, such as: digitization project management, consortia! responsibilities, and reference or instructional duties with first-hand experience of user interactions with the collection. In particular, it would be suitable for librarians whose institutions are reconsidering collections after a change initiative, such as budget cuts, a new administration, an upcoming renovation, or similar."
-- Technical Services Quarterly

"I highly recommend [this] refreshing exploration of contemporary issues in library collection development and management ... Each essay contributes to a multifaceted examination of contemporary library collection portfolios with an emphasis on the role of print content. At the same time, each essay stands alone and merits reflection and further consideration by the reader."
-- Technicalities