Library & Information Science, Course 266: Collection Development.
Dr. David Loertscher
Fall 2003
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Tips for this chapter
The textbook contains several examples of technology access charts that you can use as a pattern for your chapter. You can copy my examples pretty much or be creative and make a visual you feel you could use with a non-library audience to demonstrate what is happening technologically in the environment of your institution. The chapter needs to have four parts.First, a discussion of the current access to technology (write at least a page) followed by the current technology access chart.
Then write a narrative discussing what you see happening in the next five years for your patron's technology access.
Then follow that discussion with a second technology access chart for the year 2003.
You should end the chapter with a summary of what the trend will mean for the building of a quality information-rich environment that will indeed serve the needs of your patrons.
Some libraries have technology plans. If your library has one, you might want to include it in the Appendices if it is not too large and bulky.
The Nature of Collections - Traditional or Digital
• Professional article (c3b.pdf): Atkinson, Ross. "Managing Traditional Materials in an Online Environment: Some Definitions an distinctions for a Future Collection Management," LRTS, vol. 42, no. 1, January, 1998, p. 7-20. Looks into the future when the principal collection will be digital with traditional materials still in the picture.