Info2Go! September, 2013
Collection Development!
Topics Collection Development Cycle Polices vs. Plan Data Gathering Formats Reviews Trends Weeding Resources to learn more!
What are your collection development questions?
Collection Development • • • • • •
The cycle Gathering data Formats Reviews Trends Weeding
http://libraries.idaho.gov/page/able
Policy guides: Where you select. What you select. Who selects. Plan guides: When you select. Why you select. How you select. Policy shouldn’t change year to year but plan should be updated regularly.
Gathering Data • What do you do to gather data about the use of your collection?
FORMATS What is your library’s policy/plan for selecting formats? If you can only buy one – which one do you select?
REVIEWS What tools do you use?
Trends • • • •
E-books Self-publishing PDA’s Just-in-case vs. just-in-time
Infopeople Resources http://infopeople.org/category/keywords/co llection-development • Early Literacy Programming in the Digital Age • Children’s Literature Update 2012 • Ebooks and Public Libraries: It’s a Wild and Wooly World Out There • Killer Collections: Libraries Beyond Books • Rethinking Reference Collections http://infopeople.org/training/view/webina r/archived • Collections: Making Smart Choices within a Limited Materials Budget
Annette Lamb – 15 part series on Collection Development https://vimeo.com/channels/589690/56456154 Slide Share – Trends in Collection Development http://www.slideshare.net/lpearle/trends-in-collection-development Maine: http://www.maineinfonet.org/mscs/kieft_trends/
Weeding / Evaluation https://www.tsl.state.tx.us/ld/pubs/crew/index.html
CREW: Continuous Review, Evaluation, and Weeding
Misleading Ugly Superseded Trivial Irrelevant to collection Elsewhere (ILL)
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