Cooperative Collection Management: The Conspectus Approach Book

	Editor's Introductory Note	5
	Theoretical Value of Conspectus-Based (Cooperative) Collection Management	7
	RLG and NCIP: A Brief Overview and Selected Bibliography	11
	The Krueger Method: An Introduction	13
	Illinois Valley Library System and the Development of the Krueger Method	15
	The Krueger Manuals: A Case Study	19
	Krueger Lives: An Unscientific Exploration	25
	WLN Conspectus: An Introduction	29
	The WLN Conspectus	31
	Using the WLN Conspectus in a Non-Automated Environment	43
	Shared Futures: Cooperative Collection Development and Management in Alaska	57
	Fiction Assessment: An Introduction	63
	Quality and Demand: The Basis for Fiction Collection Assessment	65
	Designing a Fiction Assessment Tool: The Customer Service Approach	69
	Effects of Fiction Assessment on a Rural Public Library	83
	Conspectus as a Tool for (Cooperative) Collection Management	87
	Employing Collection Management as an Institutional Change Agent	91
	Cooperative Collection Management Among Four Rural Libraries	97
	Process to Promise: the CCM Plan	101