Library & Information Science, Course 266: Collection Development.
Dr. David Loertscher
Summer 04

Student Examples of Previous studies done for this class: (Books only; not PowerPoint presentations, however, this will give you an idea of what types of information to gether upon which to build your presentations)

Academic Libraries
School Libraries
Public Libraries
Special Libraries

Chapter 0: Building Background

Resources: (c0 background.html)

Lectures:

(Collection Development)

(Collection Development in Today's World: A New Day)

(The Internet)

(The Project)

(Surviving the Project)

A Model Chapter

(Working With the Instructor)

(Getting Started)

(Build a Professional Support Group)

 

Chapter 1: Survey of the Community

Resources: (c1 community.html)

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Chapter One)

Chapter 2: Survey of the Curriculum (school or academic library); Needs Assessment (public or special library)

Resources: (c2 curriculum.html)

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(Chapter Two)

The Curriculum - Academic Libraries

(Curriculum Needs Assessment) - Special Libraries

(Needs Assessment) - Public Libraries

(The Curriculum for School Librarians)

Chapter 3: Technology Access Chart and Forecast

Resources (c3 chart.html)

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Chapter 4: Comparison of the Current Collection to Standards/Benchmarks

Resources: (c4 comparison.html)

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Chapter 5: Measument of the Quality of the Current Collection

Resources (c5 measure.html):

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Chapter 6: Collection Map

Resources (c6 map.html):

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Chapter 7: Proposed Collection Map

Resources (c7 propmap.html)

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Chapter 8: Budget Documents

Resources (c8 budget.html)

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Chapter 9: The Acquisition System

Resources (c9 acquisition.html)  

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Chapter 10: Collection Development Policies

Resources (c10 policies.html)

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Chapter 11: Reflection on the Process

Resources (c11 reflection.html)

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Issues in Collection Building

Resources: (c12 issues.html)

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Looking to the Future: Building Personalized Information Spaces

Read:

Topics:

Resources: (c13future.html)

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