challenges, weeding, and preservation. Readers will find increased coverage of technical services, intellectual freedom and censorship, and collection policy development, as well as budget development and tracking, joint purchasing, and negotiating with vendors. Updates on e-resources, user needs assessment (including data visualization), and disaster management, along with suggestions for further reading, are also included. Engagingly written and easy to understand, this is a valuable text for students preparing for careers in public, academic, school, and special libraries. It will additionally serve as a training resource and professional refresher for practitioners. ¿ Provides faculty and students with a thorough, up-to-date overview of all aspects of the collection development process ¿ Helps collection development librarians to address new challenges such as online resources, how to use new tools for assessing your library's collection, developing a budget, and negotiating with vendors ¿ Engages readers and is easy to read, with real-life examples to clarify principles and concepts ¿ May be used as a text for LIS courses on collection development as well as a resource for training and personal or professional enrichment