Local Studies Collection Management

A helpful and informative guide for librarians responsible for local studies collections covering the key issues in the twenty-first century. Each chapter is written by a different specialist covering: resource providers; management of service provision; management of the collection and its materials (from books and pamphlets to microforms CD-ROMs and websites); information access and retrieval; marketing; dealing with enquiries. Introductory and concluding chapters consider the local collection within its library context the wider cultural social political and economic setting the international local studies perspective and the future for this specialism in the UK. The guide is aimed principally at public librarians but will be of interest to academic school and special librarians library school students archivists those working with local history and related societies and those in charge of private collections.