Book Review: Crash Course in Collection Development, Third Edition

Abstract

Crash Course in Collection Development by Wayne Disher successfully outlines many of the aspects within collection development, such as community considerations, assessment and evaluation, policies, budgets, maintenance, and the promotion of new materials, to name a few. Each chapter is broken down in a way that provides a high enough level view of a given topic to inform the reader, but not too detailed that it becomes proscriptive for this text to truly be seen as a crash course.