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Breakout Session Notes
Hosts: Melissa McElroy-Elve & Penelope Klein
Scribe: Erin Dorney
Introductions & why you came to this session/thoughts about best practices:
Eveyone talks about best practices but what are they really?
Consulting with member libraries and want to pass on good information to them.
Organizational changes result in realization of lack of faculty input on collection development.
Updating collection policies in a high school library setting
No experience, want to learn!
going through re-accreditation process- there is currently no collection development plan, struggling with the balance between electronic and print
Retention / continuing access:
arranged a policy where is a journal is in portico, cancel the pring subscription. same thing with Jstor or a full text aggregator
use jstor for archival purposes
not as much of a problem for public libraries - less of an issue, stronger reliance on interlibrary loan, not as much of a need for older issues
problem with storage & mold issues - had to get rid of a lot of pring issues
If it's unavailable in public and unavailable in academic libraries, then it's an issue of information loss, there should be a conversation between parties.
finding that undergraduate students dont want to look at print, so usage is down, hard to justify budgeting for them is they aren't being used.
Buying more ebooks (via netlibrary), even for reference resources - stats say they're being used, but who knows how extensively they are being read
current issues only out, everything else offsite in storage
regarrangement of periodicals - issue of storage & space (replacing stacks with computers)
Quality of the resource:
How do we teach the differences between popular and scholarly resources when looking at an html/PDF as compared to a physical copy of the journal/magazine?
ILL/Course Reserves:
How does collection development work with licensing for ILL?
Publics seem to be doing very little ILL, only specialized sources
ILL and course reserve librarian read all licensing agreements
consortial work is being effected by the purchase of ebooks (which arent usually shared via Connect NY or ILL) RIT (or RPI) movingmore budget towards ebooks which then cant be shared via CNY
Ebooks
collection development isnt really being thought about except on the level of the subject librarian purchasing a single Ebook
There's nothing to say all of the budget cant be spent on Ebooks (or physical monographs)
public just purchased some Ebooks - went with travel and languages (maybe these are things people might want small portions of that would be transportable) they have been used
Overdrive LOOK UP - people with iPods cant use them for these Ebooks
Playaway LOOK UP
ideally, the system would buy it all for everyone (public library systems) but not all libraries are buying in (for databases and ebooks)
Ebook collection development written policies:
used to prioritize resources request
use for annual evaluation
Sometimes we want to move forward to new technologies, but our users want to use old technologies (vhs, audio casettes)
Kindle? No one in the group has one for their library or is loaning one out.
Music - faculty wanted an online collection, almost all cd budget moved to naxos LOOK UP no marc records for these right now, trying to figure out some federated searching for these to search the music collection and Naxos at the same time
Using Web 2.0 for collection development? No one really, using "old school" email!
LINK THE LITERATURE BLOG MELISSA TALKED ABOUT.
Books on the air LOOK UP
Book letters LOOK UP
Books in Print Plus LOOK UP
Shelfari & LibraryThing LOOK UP
non-tech - reach out to the community (domestic violence shelter, doctors, PTherapists) ask what they're recommending so that the library can get it!
Best Practices:
Educate users
Communication with users
Start small with Ebooks
Written and updated policies
Be proactive
Resources
Twiki
"Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections" by Timothy W. Cole here.
"Rethinking Collections--Libraries and librarians in an open age: A theoretical view" by Heather Morrisonhere.
Conference to attend (in China!)
Breakout Session Notes
Hosts: Melissa McElroy-Elve & Penelope Klein
Scribe: Erin Dorney
Introductions & why you came to this session/thoughts about best practices:
Eveyone talks about best practices but what are they really?
Consulting with member libraries and want to pass on good information to them.
Organizational changes result in realization of lack of faculty input on collection development.
Updating collection policies in a high school library setting
No experience, want to learn!
going through re-accreditation process- there is currently no collection development plan, struggling with the balance between electronic and print
Retention / continuing access:
arranged a policy where is a journal is in portico, cancel the pring subscription. same thing with Jstor or a full text aggregator
use jstor for archival purposes
not as much of a problem for public libraries - less of an issue, stronger reliance on interlibrary loan, not as much of a need for older issues
problem with storage & mold issues - had to get rid of a lot of pring issues
If it's unavailable in public and unavailable in academic libraries, then it's an issue of information loss, there should be a conversation between parties.
finding that undergraduate students dont want to look at print, so usage is down, hard to justify budgeting for them is they aren't being used.
Buying more ebooks (via netlibrary), even for reference resources - stats say they're being used, but who knows how extensively they are being read
current issues only out, everything else offsite in storage
regarrangement of periodicals - issue of storage & space (replacing stacks with computers)
Quality of the resource:
How do we teach the differences between popular and scholarly resources when looking at an html/PDF as compared to a physical copy of the journal/magazine?
ILL/Course Reserves:
How does collection development work with licensing for ILL?
Publics seem to be doing very little ILL, only specialized sources
ILL and course reserve librarian read all licensing agreements
consortial work is being effected by the purchase of ebooks (which arent usually shared via Connect NY or ILL) RIT (or RPI) movingmore budget towards ebooks which then cant be shared via CNY
Ebooks
collection development isnt really being thought about except on the level of the subject librarian purchasing a single Ebook
There's nothing to say all of the budget cant be spent on Ebooks (or physical monographs)
public just purchased some Ebooks - went with travel and languages (maybe these are things people might want small portions of that would be transportable) they have been used
Overdrive LOOK UP - people with iPods cant use them for these Ebooks
Playaway LOOK UP
ideally, the system would buy it all for everyone (public library systems) but not all libraries are buying in (for databases and ebooks)
Ebook collection development written policies:
used to prioritize resources request
use for annual evaluation
Sometimes we want to move forward to new technologies, but our users want to use old technologies (vhs, audio casettes)
Kindle? No one in the group has one for their library or is loaning one out.
Music - faculty wanted an online collection, almost all cd budget moved to naxos LOOK UP no marc records for these right now, trying to figure out some federated searching for these to search the music collection and Naxos at the same time
Using Web 2.0 for collection development? No one really, using "old school" email!
LINK THE LITERATURE BLOG MELISSA TALKED ABOUT.
Books on the air LOOK UP
Book letters LOOK UP
Books in Print Plus LOOK UP
Shelfari & LibraryThing LOOK UP
non-tech - reach out to the community (domestic violence shelter, doctors, PTherapists) ask what they're recommending so that the library can get it!
Best Practices:
Educate users
Communication with users
Start small with Ebooks
Written and updated policies
Be proactive
Resources
Twiki
"Creating a Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections" by Timothy W. Cole here.
"Rethinking Collections--Libraries and librarians in an open age: A theoretical view" by Heather Morrisonhere.
Conference to attend (in China!)
