Tuesday, September 21, 2010

Collection development with Lisa

Lisa shared notes and information from the LIANZA one day workshop on Collection Development - a tall order in the short time span, but she certainly covered all the essentials of the whole collection planning cycle - from knowing your "stakeholders", documenting the approach and policy, identifying needs and priorities, knowing how to deal with challenges, through to the sometimes fraught aspect of "de-selecting"...

There are plenty of resources on the National Library Schools website
http://schools.natlib.govt.nz/developing-your-library/tools-and-guides
See pages on the Collection development cycle, Assessing your collection, Budgeting, Writing a buying plan, Collection guiding statement (formerly known as a policy), Weeding, as well as guides to particular areas of the collection eg Reference, Magazines...

If you think your collection management statement could be reviewed, or if your buying plan needs to be better documented, or if you are dealing with issues such as weeding or censorship by just "flying under the radar" then perhaps you could have a look at your collection development processes and documentation...

Here is the link on Google Docs to the slides shared by Lisa.

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