ABSTRACT

Historically, collection development librarians concerned themselves with selecting resources to be added to the collections. After its acquisition, catalogers controlled the material through the catalog. The nature of electronic resources has caused collection developers to be more involved in the issues of organization of resources for best presentation to, and access by, users. While organization and access were, of course, functions of the catalog, different expectations come into play in the world of point-and-click. Not only has delivery of information to the libraries changed, so too has the ability of users to get to resources through other ways than the traditional catalog, even its current electronic database incarnation.