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Title: LIBR 520 Collection Management


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LIBR 520Collection Management
  • BACKGROUND

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The Library of Alexandria
  • It was only the cultural pretensions
    of tyrants, kings and emperors which could
    conceive anything like a universal
    collection of books. -
    Roy Macleod The Library of Alexandria,
    (p.76)

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  • A monastery without a library is like a castle
    without an armoury. - anonymous monk, 1170
    A.D.
  • the beginning of the Middle Ages is marked
    by an interesting development, a taste
    for collecting books. -D.N. Marshall,
    History of Libraries, (p.79)

4
Gabriel Naude - French librarian of early 1600s
wrote Advice on Establishing a Library his
advice ...
  • Easiest way to get books was to acquire an
    entire undissipated library of someone who
    has died or to convince someone to
    donate books.

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  • A great LIBRARY cannot be constructed it is the
    growth of the Ages. You may buy books, at any
    time, -with money but you cannot make a Library,
    like one that has been for Centuries a-growing
    even though you had the whole amount of our
    National Debt to do it with.
    -- John Hill Burton
    The Book-Hunter (2nd Ed., p. 169)

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  • By 1876, librarian William Mathers wrote in
    Public Libraries in the United States of America
    that books were flying from the press as thick as
    snowflakes on a wintry day.

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BibliochlothanasiaLibrary Hygiene and the
Librarian
  • Librarian B.J. Enright used the term
    bibliochlothanasia lengthened from the word
    ochlothanasia meaning death from
    overcrowding.
  • Modern scholars refer to this struggle with
    information as, data-smog.

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  • "And concerning the number of books, the
    establishment of libraries, and the collection
    in the Hall of the Muses, why need I even speak,
    since they are all in men's memories?
    -- Athenaeu
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