LIBR 266-10
Collection Management
Summer 2007 Greensheet
Wayne Disher
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Phone: 951-765-2441
Office Location: Hemet Public Library or Online
Office Hours: One Hour before class and/or by arrangement
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Course Description
This 3 unit course supports the SLIS objective of information management, including the selection, storage and utilization of information resources and will examine the field of collection management in all types of libraries and information centers. It will also introduce you to Collection Development principles and practices that can be generalized to the work of academic, public, school, and special libraries. The course is designed to help you understand and apply collection management theory in a variety of areas, including: material selection; development of collection management policies; collection promotion and merchandising; and, collection evaluation. The course deals with collections in a general sense rather than those limited to a particular subject, format or agency. However, while examples will be taken from a variety of settings, I will place emphasis on collection management theory as it is applied to the public library setting as this is the area in which your instructor has more experience..
Course Objectives
- To familiarize the student with the theoretical and practical issues associated with collection management and the various selection resources for libraries.
- To identify, evaluate, and utilize the literature pertinent to both the management of collections and the selection of resource materials.
- To describe and analyze the historical and current theoretical and practical issues associated with the management of library collections.
- To aid the student in understanding the centrality of collection development to other functions of the library.
- Become aware of methodologies for determining user needs regardless of information environment.
- Acquire an understanding of resource selection, evaluation and the complexities that this work brings to the professional role.
LIBR 266 supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:
- Articulate the ethics, values and foundational principles of library and information professionals and their role in the promotion of intellectual freedom;
- Compare the environments and organizational settings in which library and information professionals practice;
- Use the basic concepts and principles related to the creation, evaluation, selection, acquisition, preservation and organization of specific items or collections of information;
- Evaluate programs and services on specified criteria.
In addition, this section supports the following SLIS Core Competencies:
- Recognize the social, cultural and economic dimensions of information use;
- Apply the fundamental principles of planning, management and marketing/advocacy;
- Use service concepts, principles and techniques that facilitate information access, relevance, and accuracy for individuals or groups of users;
Textbooks and Readings
Students are required to obtain the text Developing Library and Information Center Collections by G. Edward Evans for this class. The publisher is Libraries Unlimited. Please obtain the 5th edition. Additional reading assignments are seen on the course Blackboard.
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Course Requirements
Assignments
You'll find assignments explained in the "Assignments" link on the Blackboard. Basically, there are 6 overall assignments centered around a "collection management portfolio". In your collection management portfolio, you will demonstrate to me your mastery of many of the topics covered in the class and your development in the understanding of collection management. Your portfolio will be comprised of the four assignments listed in the appropriate Units links on the Blackboard as well as the two papers listed under the "Assignments" link.
Course Calendar
A complete calendar of due dates and course lectures is available on the Blackboard.
Grading
Papers and assignments are due as listed on the Assignments page. I do not accept late papers. Additionally, due to the fact that I am an adjunct faculty member, and my schedule is such that I can not predict if I will be available in the future, I do not allow students to take an incomplete in this class.
Letter grades are assigned using the standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale below. If you do the assignments as outlined on the assignment sheet and explained in class, you will maintain a B grade. If you submit sub-standard work, you will receive a sub-standard grade (B- or below). If, however, you submit above-standard work, you will receive an above standard grade (B+ or better). I define above standard work as that which clearly displays several of the following criteria:
- Originality in the approach to the assignment;
- Greater depth of analysis than the written assignment calls for;
- Overall treatment of the assignment above & beyond what the written assignment calls for; or
- Superior organizational and/or written skills in the presentation of the material.
Grading Scale
The standard SJSU SLIS Grading Scale is utilized for all SLIS courses:
| 97-100 | A |
| 94-96 | A- |
| 91-93 | B+ |
| 88-90 | B |
| 85-87 | B- |
| 82-84 | C+ |
| 79-81 | C |
| 76-78 | C- |
| 73-75 | D+ |
| 70-72 | D |
| 67-69 | D- |
| Below 67 | F |
Due Dates and Late Assignments
Due dates are not negotiable. As a rule, I do not accept late assignments. If extraordinary circumstances prevail, however, an accepted late assignment will receive a penalty of at least one half of a grade.
Academic Integrity
Your own commitment to learning, as evidenced by your enrollment at San José State University, and the University's Academic Integrity Policy requires you to be honest in all your academic course work. Faculty members are required to report all infractions to the Office of Student Conduct and Ethical Development. The policy on academic integrity can be found at http://sa.sjsu.edu/student_conduct.
Reasonable Accommodation of Disabilities
If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability,
please e-mail me as soon as possible. Presidential Directive 97-03 requires
that students with disabilities register with the Disability Resource Center
(DRC) to establish record of their disability.
No matter where students reside, they should contact the SJSU DRC to register. The DRC Web site: http://www.drc.sjsu.edu/
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