EDUCATION FOR COLLECTION MANAGEMENT - RESULTS OF A SURVEY OF EDUCATORS AND PRACTITIONERS

Individuals who list collection development as a specialization in the directory of the Association for Library and Information Science Education were surveyed. A sample of members of either the RASD Collection Development and Evaluation Section or the ALCTS Collection Management and Development Section also were surveyed. Recipients of the questionnaire were asked to assess the importance of specific aspects of education for collection development (practitioners also were asked to assess their own educational experiences with regard to collection development). Further, respondents offered their opinions on where the locus of education for collection development should be and what journals they read in order to keep up with issues in collection development. Results from each group of respondents are presented, as well as comparisons between the two groups.