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“Arrested Collection Development”
19 Jan 07
My colleague and friend Mita Williams has posted a response to some of my notes on collection policies. See her post entitled Arrested Collection Development. My favourite part is this:
From what I recall, a collection development policy can be summed up as several pages of call number ranges with words that essentially express: “we are trying to get lots of this”, “we want some of this stuff”, and “there’s not much on this subject that we want”.
What Mita describes corresponds to the conspectus approach, and she correctly points out that it’s pretty uninspiring. I like the rule-based method she describes. It’s contextual, lends itself to qualitative reasoning, perhaps even to something like narrative.
Posted by pzed on January 19, 2007 at 5.36pm
Categories: collection policies, libraries
