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TL11.4FALL2004_singles The Teaching Librarian volume 12, no. 1 7 Collection Development @ your library® Welcome to the first issue of volume 12 of The Teaching Librarian!The members of the Editorial Board spend a lot of time thinkingabout, planning for, and working on each issue of TL. We enjoy the challenge and we enjoy being part of producing a journal you've told us you find both enjoyable and useful. We've decided to do something a bit different for volumes 12, 13, and 14 of TL - the three-year term of this Board. We've decided that, each year, we'll deal with the same three big themes: manage- ment; issues in school librarianship; and program/curriculum. Although we had hoped to cover the themes in the same order each year, we've already had to make a change to this year's issues in an effort to get publication back on schedule. We've moved the program/curriculum issue to Winter and the issues one to Spring. This year, we'll be focusing on collection development, liter- acy/reading, and intellectual freedom. The contributor's deadline has passed for the Winter issue and is coming up quickly - February, 2005 - for the Spring issue. Submission guidelines are avail- able on The Teaching Librarian page of the OSLA Web site at www.accessola.com/osla/about/mag- azine.htm. Please consider contributing to your journal - comments, tips, photos, articles, cur- riculum units…they're all welcome! And so, back to volume 12, number 1. You're holding in your hand the first of our management issues. The focus of this issue is collection development, which includes everything from map- ping the collection and planning purchases through weeding the collection and discarding the weeded materials. The number of tasks and amount of work can seem overwhelming, but remem- ber, you're not in this alone! Your colleagues can help - and that's one of the purposes of The Teaching Librarian; to make available to each of us the experience and expertise of our colleagues. In this issue, Susan Moroz shares online resources, Esther Rosenfeld reviews professional litera- ture, and contributors write about an assortment of collection development issues, including weeding, which so many of us find so hard to do. It is my hope, and the hope of the members of the Editorial Board, that you will find thissharing useful. And, of course, the sharing doesn't end with the contents of this issue -you're invited and encouraged to continue to discuss and share via the OSLA listserv. Brenda Dillon t h e e d it o r 's n o t e b o o k T L