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D0r0th34
Examples of academic-library collection-development policies online?
Not sure if this is the kind of thing you are looking for, but here you go: http://www.coloradocollege.edu/library... - Steve the White Devil
that's good, thanks! publicly-available reports on policy revisions also welcome - D0r0th34
My current library only has this: http://library.uco.edu/faculty... My former library has this: http://www.ecok.edu/library... - Kirsten
both useful, in different ways! thank you - D0r0th34
Ours are mostly out of date, I think: http://library.nyu.edu/collect... - MegvMeg
wow, subject-specific, though! that is awesome; NYU wins the thread hands-down - D0r0th34
cards on the table: I am pondering an assignment for coll-dev course next semester making students rewrite an existing policy in light of what they've learned in class - D0r0th34
sweeeeeeeet! *ponders compare-and-contrast assignment* - D0r0th34
I love you guys! thank you thank you thank you - D0r0th34
FWIF, that's a good assignment. Did something similar in lib school and it was very helpful and informative. There was a comparison involved (between CD policies of similar libraries by type and size), then we wrote our own based on the needs of the sort of library we were concentrating on. - Kirsten
thank you, glad to know I'm not barking up the silly tree - D0r0th34
Not silly in the slightest. Do it do it do it: These are the skills and frameworks any librarian involved in CD work needs in order to succeed. You cannot thoughtfully build a collection if you cannot think about how and why you are building the collection, and as a profession we need to work harder on articulating those things. Policies are one way we articulate our vision and priorities, so ... yeah. Do it. :) - Jenica
Illinois' Collection policies and descriptions sites: http://www.library.illinois.edu/adminis.... Not the most organized but lots of info there. - Sarah
<3 Illinois for having superseded ones. THAT will be a good class discussion. ;) - D0r0th34
We did something similar in CD class. Was quite useful I thought. - Mar₭ the Engaged
CollDev Framework: http://library.canterbury.ac.nz/collser... includes link to the CollDev policy at: http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/ucpolic... - Deborah Fitchett
Since I'm a member of the ACRL's Literatures in English Section, I started a page in the section's wiki on Collection Development Policies that links to English policy statements as well as others. http://literaturesinenglish.pb... - Stephen Francoeur