Library & Information Science, Course 266: Collection Development.
Dr. David Loertscher
Fall 2003
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• Class Notes for Chapter Five (c5g.html)
Quality and Demand as Collection Assessment
• Professional article (c5b.pdf): Baker, Sharon L. "Quality and demand: The Basis for Fiction Collection Assessment," Collection Building, vol. 13, no.s 2-3, p. 65-68. - Argues that in public libraries both quality and demand need not be considered as diametrically opposed ideas in collection development. Provides strategies to do both as collections are built and assessed.• Professional article (c5m.pdf): Saunders, E. Stewart. "The Effect of Quality on Circulation in an Aging Collection," Collection Management, vol. 20 (3/4), 1996, p. 149-58. - Do quality items circulate more often than other "stuff?"
Collection Response to Curricular Requests
• Professional article (c5c.pdf): Doll, Carol A. "School Library Media Center and Public Library Collections and the High School Curriculum,"Collection Management, vol. 20, nos. 1/2, 1995, p. 99-114. - How do school and public library collections respond when typical students try to write research papers? Not badly, according to Doll.
Evaluative Strategies
• Professional article (c5h.pdf): Carrigan, Dennis P. "Collection Development&emdash;Evaluation," The Journal of Academic Librarianship, July, 1996, p. 273-78. - "This article argues for explicit evaluation of collection development and discusses menas to accomplish that. Evaluating a library's collection is not an acceptable proxy for evaluating collection development."• Professional article (c5i.pdf): Delaney-Lehman, Maureen J. "Assessing the Library Collection for Diversity," Collection Management, vol. 20 (3/4) 1996, p. 29-37. - The title is explanatory.
• Professional article (c5j.pdf): Ephraim, P.E. "A Review of Qualitative and Quantitative Measures in Collection Analysis," The Electronic Library, vol. 12, no. 4, August, 1994, p. 237-41. - "While not dismissing the raging debate on whether quantitative measures are more efficacious than qualitative in collection analysis, this paper posits that a mix of the measures is safer ground..."
• Professional article (c5k.pdf): Fiore, Carole. "The Numbers Game: How to Fatten Your Budget by Using Statistics," School Library Journal, March, 1998, p. 104-6. - How to 'lie with statistics' to get what you want. Valuable ideas for any library.
Resource Sharing
• Professional article (c5d.pdf): Sloan, Bernie. "Testing Common Assumptions about Resource Sharing," Information Technology and Libraries, March, 1998, p. 18-29. - In an interlibrary loan atmosphere where physical items are passing through libraries to patrons, do libraries suffer when patrons other than their own draw on the collection?
Weeding
• Professional article (c5e.pdf): Manning, Patricia. "When Less Is More:Cultivating a Healthy Collection," School Library Journal, May, 1997, p. 54-55. - For school and public librarians, a few tips on weeding.• Professional article (c5l.pdf): Martin, Murray S. "Weeding Or Deaccessioning?" Technicalities, vol. 17, no. 7, July/August, 1997, p. 16-18. - Weeding practices and policies are explored here.
Duplication
• Professional article (c5f.pdf): Hawk, Janet. "The OCLC Site Search Suite Allows Libraries to Integrate Information Resources," OCLC Newsletter, January/February, 1998, p. 28-32. - Libraries often purchase the same information over and over again in various formats. But how do you know if you already own the information? OCLC's experiment confronts this problem.