Library & Information Science, Course 266: Collection Development.
Dr. David Loertscher
Fall 2003
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Suggestions fro witing this chapter:
In this chapter you want to give decision-makers a graphical representation of where the collection is and should be headed in a period of time - one year, three years, five years... To do this, you will need to have some goals and targets in mind. These may come from previous chapters on quantity and quality and measurement against standards.
Once you have some clear goals in mind, you can look at the simple example in the textbook.
How could you create a graphic that would show both where you are at the moment (chapter 6) and show where you should be going?
A graphic of this nature would be very valuable to show in a major presentation you might make to decisionmakers as you not only indicate where the collection needs to move but also the financial implications.
Begin the chapter by describing what you took into consideration as you created the graphic.
Present the graphic.
Then discuss the implications of the graphic. Money comes in the next chapter, so you need not dwell on that. You might think of technology implications, facilities, personnel, or anything else that will need to be considered if you reached the projected goal.
How will you decide what to own and what to provide access to?
• Professional article (c7b.pdf): Allen, Barbara McFadden and Arnold Hirshon. "hanging Together to Avoid Hanging Separately: Opportunities for Academic Libraries and Consortia," Information Technology and Libraries, March, 1998, p. 36-44. - How are consortia developing to provide information to as many people at the lowest cost? Here's a background article about academic libraries.• Professional article (c7c.pdf): Kopp, James J. "Library Consortia and Information Technology: The Past, the Present, the Promise," Information Technology and Libraries, March, 1998, p. 7-12. - To maximize access, libraries often form consortia to divide collection responsibility. What is the future of this effort in the digital age?
• Professional article (c7d.pdf): Lougee, Wendy P. "Beyond Access: New Concepts, New Tensions for Collection Development in a Digital Environment," Collection Building, vol. 14, #3, 1995, p. 19-25. - Lougee explores six critical challenges to libraries in the ownership vs. access arena.
Resource Sharing
• Professional article (c7e.pdf): Melvyn, Tony. "Resource Sharing: The Metamorphosis of OCLC ILL," OCLC Newsletter, November/December, 1997, p. 25-36. - How OCLC is ajusting to new concepts in sharing. Such plans are needed as any library decides what direction it will move toward.
Collection Development Issues
• Professional article (c7f.pdf): Nilsen, Kirsti. "Collection Devleopment Issues of Academic and Public Libraries: Converging or Diverging?" Collection Building, vol. 13, no. 4, p. 9-17. - The article title describes the content.• Professional article (c7g.pdf): Hitchingham, Eileen. "Collection Management in Light of Electronic Publishing," Information Technology and Libraries, March, 1996, p. 38-41. - A brief overview of the issues as information goes electronic.
Collaboration with faculty on collection building
• Professional article (c7h.pdf): Chu, Felix T. "Librarian-Faculty Relations in Collection Development," The Journal of Academic Librarianship, January, 1997, p. 15-19. - Building a proposed collection map requires good collaborative skills.• Professional article (c7i.pdf): Hunt, Caroline C., Neville, Robert., and William III, James. "Faculty-Library Teamwork in Books Ordering," College & Research Libraries, November 1998, p. 524-533.- To get the best results from a faculty liason system, library staff must take into account the varied nature of academic collections and the uneven pricing of materials, respect departmental cultures and be willing to make adjustmentsfor them, and frequently reassess and fine-tune the system. Using these principles, the College of Charleston has developed a liason system that permits a range of practices.