New from ALA

In the first edition of Developing an Outstanding Core Collection Carol Alabaster outlined her principles of adult core collections, based on her work at Phoenix Public Library. In the second, she revisits those principles to make sure they are still valid (they are) and also addresses the technological changes that have occurred since the first edition was published in 2002. Coverage of core collection development resources has been updated. The sample core lists have also been updated, although just a bit, since Alabaster’s focus in on enduring classics.

Indexed. 191p. $60 (978-0-8389-1040-5)

Between them Leslie Edmonds Holt and Glen E. Holt have thirty years’ experience at St. Louis Public Library planning and providing services to the poor, and they’ve used that experience as the basis for Public Library Services to the Poor: Doing All We Can. The Holts contend that current responses to the needs of the chronically poor and working poor, including those mandated by the American Library Association, are inadequate, and the book shows how libraries can do much more to meet the needs of this underserved group.

Indexed. 157p. $48 (978-0-8389-1050-4)