The bibliography is comprehensive with detailed annotations and includes resources useful to the student of collection development. Well-developed educational site. Includes collection development policies, statistics, conspectus definitions and collecting levels, gift and donor information, copyright, access versus ownership sources, book and serials vendors, and description of approval plans for many countries. The site also offers extensive commentary on issues in scholarly publishing. Links to further reading are provided.
Navigation is a little confusing.
In the overview, the authors note that the Internet is a powerful tool that allows collection development officers to perform traditional collection development tasks much more quickly and easily. This site includes academic and library-related listservs, collection development sites, review sources, publishers, vendors, bookstores, online catalogs, a survey of the literature, and recommendations for the future. Each section contains links with detailed annotations. As it contains much useful information, this site is valuable as an orienting tool for the collection development student. The drawback to this site is that it is from 1997, so some of the links are out of date.