http://www.pzed.ca/words/2006/12/14/wood-and-hoffmann-library-collection-development-policies/ what do you read, m'lord? Thu, 26 Nov 2009 02:31:29 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.pzed.ca/words/2006/12/14/wood-and-hoffmann-library-collection-development-policies/comment-page-1/#comment-556 words » Blog Archive » Wood and Hoffmann II Tue, 19 Dec 2006 20:11:21 +0000 http://www.pzed.ca/words/archives/2006/wood-and-hoffmann-library-collection-development-policies/#comment-556 [...] In my first post on Wood and Hoffmann, I identified four general categories of arguments in favour of libraries having collection development policies: planning, accountability, staff, and information. Partially, what I’m thinking about now is not so much a reduction of those categories to two, but a recognition that specific aspects of a policy may be either internally or externally oriented. Indeed, a policy could be entirely oriented in one or the other direction. My gut feeling is that collection development policies often try to do too much. Does a library benefit from having a comprehensive policy, or is it better to sketch a general framework that outlines the library’s general philosophy? [...] [...] In my first post on Wood and Hoffmann, I identified four general categories of arguments in favour of libraries having collection development policies: planning, accountability, staff, and information. Partially, what I’m thinking about now is not so much a reduction of those categories to two, but a recognition that specific aspects of a policy may be either internally or externally oriented. Indeed, a policy could be entirely oriented in one or the other direction. My gut feeling is that collection development policies often try to do too much. Does a library benefit from having a comprehensive policy, or is it better to sketch a general framework that outlines the library’s general philosophy? [...]

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