Collection Development

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Collection Development Access

• The implications of Cross-Cultural considerations
  in the age of Digitization

prepared by Rebecca Brock Anna Joujan for IS
554 with Dr. Bharat Mehra
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Topic Definition What is Collection
Development anyway . . .?

• an ongoing process
• planning and building
• useful and balanced collection
• based on assessment of needs and wants?
• a full-time responsibility!

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Context

• SPACE more complicated of an issue than it seems
  at first glance!
• NEED the librarians role in determining
  community needs not just wants!
• BUDGET the crucial nature of managing a
  shrinking? budget

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Description

• The evolution of collection development over
  the years
• Selection policies instead of committees
• Vital role of a vibrant, relevant, and up-to-date
  library collection, in an age of competing
  entertainment

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Project Scope

• Deciding on the best development methods
• Choosing suitable materials for ones unique
  needs
• Other relevant elements policies? controversies?
  guidelines?

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Project Goals

• Addressing specific collection needs of a small
  library personnel? time? budget limitations?
• Considering unique aspects of a cross-cultural
  collection publicity? demand? knowledge?
  translation?
• The ever-present, and evolving, nature of
  digitization, as it concerns the librarys
  collection

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Project Justification

• Is collection development outdated? No--more
  variety, and need for consideration than ever!
• Do we really still have more to consider?
  Yescollection development must be reconsidered,
  redefined, and refined!

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Useful Links

• http//www.dlapr.lib.az.us/cdt/intro.htm
• This website for Arizona libraries has some
  wonderful information regarding collection
  development and writing policies.
• http//www.loc.gov/acq/colldev/handbook.html --
  Library of Congress Collection Development and
  the Internet NOTE this is an excellent handbook
  that will help any library get started with
  collection development online
• http//www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/acqs.ht
  ml
• This is the largest of the collection development
  websites and probably the most useful for our
  purposes. There is a large list of links to
  publishers and vendors, and to libraries,
  including GABRIEL (European national libraries).
  The publishers directory has broad subject access
  (art, education).
• http//www.arl.org/collect/
• This and the ARL Gopher (linked) are among the
  best collection development sites. There are
  links to ARL libraries, a directory to AAU/ARL
  Demonstration Projects (the German Demonstration
  Project, for example, tests linking between North
  American and German libraries), and to recent
  publications (e.g., "Acquisitions of Western
  European Materials," "Western European Political
  Science An Acquisition Study").
• http//www.itcompany.com/inforetriever/acqsercd.ht
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• Created by Vianne Tang Sha, Automation and
  Bibliographic Management Librarian, University of
  Missouri-Columbia, School of Law Library, this
  site includes a section with links to online
  collection development policies and procedures
  from a number of libraries, as well as sections
  on software library journals related to
  acquisitions and serials serial vendors email
  lists and newsgroups review sources for books,
  cd-roms, software, movies and videos publishers
  catalogs lists of foreign book and serial
  vendors and under "Reference Tools," links to
  sites offering currency converters, shipping and
  postal information, and online glossaries of
  bibliographic information by language.