Library & Information Science, Course 266: Collection Development.
Dr. David Loertscher
Fall 2003
c11 reflection.html
Suggestions for writing this chapter
• Before you attempt to write this chapter, complete the professional reading that you have been assigned for the course. Complete the annotated bibliography of these readings in preparation to submit your log to the instructor.• Go back over your entire book looking at its content and making its format consistent throughout. This will help refresh your memory of all the research you have done and the findings you wrote.
• Now write this chapter in two parts.
• First, reflect on the process you have gone through to research a library collection from beginning to the end. Describe the adventure; its easy and tough parts and how you have come to understand the process of building collections.
• Second, reflect on the concept of collection development for libraries; where it has been and where you think it is going in the future. What challenges are their ahead in the creation of a 21st century information system?
• Format the chapter and then finalize your book, creating its final paging, table of contents, adding appedicies if you have them, printing out the final copy, and then binding it attractively.
• Prepare to deliver the finished product to your profession with a post-paid return mailer. Include a disk in your packet that contains all the electronic files of every chapter.
• If you would allow the professor to use some of the materials from your book as examples for future classes, please add a permission note. If you would like the name of the library to be fictionalized, state that. If the professor adds any of your materials to the web site, you will know about it and your name and proper credit will be attached. Those ahead of you might appreciate samples which were unavailable to you.
Streaming media
1. Reflecting on collection building in libraries - building your ideas for an elequent essay.
Collection Development as a Whole
• Professional article (c11b.pdf): Rowley, Gordon and William K. Black. "Consequences of Change: The Evolution of Collection Development," Collction Building, vol. 15, no. 2, 1996, p. 22-30. - Explores change in ideas about collection development.