LIBR 266: COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT
Fall, 2002
David V. Loertscher
GREEN SHEET
Important note to all students taking this course Fall 2002: The communication part of this course will be conducted on a distance education program titled Blackboard. You must register (no fee) before Sept 10. Here is how:
Note: if you already have an account on Blackboard (tigris) then do step one and then skip to step 5
1. Access the web site: http://tigris.sjsu.edu
2. First create yourself an account. It will ask you for personal information. Put in your address and telephone number where you can be reached (sometimes your instructor needs to contact you.) You can lie about your age.
3. Create your own user name and password (write this down!!!!!)
4. Finally, submit this information. Now you have an account.
5. Now find the Courses tab and "browse the course catalog"
6. Find the 266 course and to the right click "enroll." You are in!
7. Content for the course will be through this web page on slisweb. Communications will occur through Blackboard on tigris.
8. You will always enter the communications for the course through tigris. For those enrolled in blackboard in previous semesters, do not go to blackboard.com. We are serving out Blackboard from SLIS now and so access should be instantaneous.
Also, be sure you are on SLISADMIN so you can get all official messages from the School. Here are the directions: We use an electronic list to keep you informated about important school information. All students are required to be on the list it is called slisadmin. To join: (1) Go into your email program and in the To: box enter listproc@listproc.sjsu.edu (2) Leave the subject line blank. (3) In the body of the message write subscribe slisadmin yourfirstname yourlastname. For exampe: subscribe slisadmin Linda Main. (4) send the message. You should receive a confirmation that you are subscribed.. Please note: You cannot post to this list. It is merely a way for the faculty and the staff to distribute school-related information. For more information on al the school's electronic lists, please check out: http://witloof.sjsu.edu/comps/lists.htm
Fall Class Dates and times: (attendance required - you may attend either north or south each month)
Class #1
North:
Sept 7, 1-4pm San Jose Campus, D403
South: Sept 8: 2-5pm Fullerton Campus Langsdorf Hall 303
Class #2
North: Oct. 5, 1-4pm San Jose Campus
South: Oct. 6, 2-5pm Fullerton Campus
Class #3
North Nov. 2, 1-4pm San Jose Campus
South: Nov. 3, 2-5pm, Fullerton Campus
Class #4
North Dec. 7, 1-4pm San Jose Campus
South: Dec. 8, 2-5pm
Locations of the 2nd through 4th classes may vary. The professor likes to move the classes to interesting libraries as a field trip. Class members may extend invitations to visit. This may cause class members to travel shorter or longer journeys to class, but there will always be classes in northern and southern California.
 Course Description
Study of collection management in all types of libraries and information centers. Includes analysis of information needs, criteria for selection, collection use evaluation, and resources for collection development.
Course Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will have: adopted an actual collection or collection segment and
- know the community/curriculum it serves;
- studied, built, and or created collection analyses for the formation/management/evaluation of the collection.
- created a collection map for the collection.
- evaluated how well the collection meets the needs of its users.
- created a proposed collection map with an accompanying budget.
- created an acquisition system to see that the collection develops as planned.
- studied the costs of information delivery in various formats.
- created an annotated bibliography of materials to be added to the collection including the writing of critical annotations that could be published in a major reviewing journal.
- created a system for resource sharing.
- confronted the major issues in collection development at the millenium such as:
censorship
preservation
technology and collections
resource sharing
the Internet
digital libraries
Textbooks
Required:
1. Loertscher, David V. Collection Mapping in the LMC: Building Access in a World of Technology . Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 1996. In addition, for school librarians, Building a School Library Collection Plan: A Beginning Handbook with Internet Assist by David V. Loertscher and Blanche Woolls with an Internet Assist by Janice Felker. Hi Willow Research and Publishing, 1999. Chapters 1-4 are available here. The instructor will bring copies of these books to the first and second class periods for purchase.
2. Any of the collection development textbooks or collections of articles covering collection development in the type of library the student is headed towards. Try to borrow copies of these rather than purchase them. Samples include:
Evans, G. Edward. Developing Library and Information Center Collections. 4rd ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2000. - good for most types of libraries. (paper: $49.50) (order at lu.com)
- Richards, Daniel T. and Dottie Eakin. Collection Development and Assessment in Health Sciences Libraries, vol. 4 of: Current Practice in Health Sciences Librarianship, Alison Bunting, Editor-in-Chief. Medical Library Association and The Scarecrow Press, 1997. (order from Scarecrow)
- Van Orden, Phyllis J. and Kay Bishop. the Collection Program in Schools: Concepts, Practices, and Information Sources. 3rd edition. Libraries Unlimited, 2001. ($49.50 order from lu.com) New for the school librarian.
3. Library Access: Access to the electronic reserve collection of San Jose State University Library attached to this web page. Access to this material is available only to registered students who have paid course fees and have received the password from the instructor. The student should also be able to access the electronic collections of Clarke Library on the campus of San Jose State University using a proxy server.
Instructor
David V. Loertscher
Professor, San Jose State University
School of Library and Informaiton Science
One Washington Square
San Jose State University
San Jose CA 95192-0029
P.O. Box 720400
San Jose, CA 95172-0400
408-924-2501 (San Jose office)
831-630-0589 home
408-804-3066 cell phone
davidl@wahoo.sjsu.edu
Course Outline
Topics
1. Survey of the Community/Curriculum
2. Library collections in the age of technology
3. Study of national standards for the organization/ comparison with local collection
4. Measures of collection size and quality
5. Graphical representations of collection strengths
6. Creation of collection building targets
7. Creating collection building policies, selection criteria and weeding criteria
8. Collection building strategies, selection tools, acquisition systems
9. Types of material by medium, print through electronic
books
periodicals
audiovisual materials
electronic resources
networks
10. Censorship
11. Budgeting systems
12. Evaluation of the collection
Major Project:
Select a collection or collection segment as the target for this class. This collection may be in a school, public, academic or special library. For that collection, you will complete the following mini-studies which joined together will become chapters in a complete analysis of an actual collection. Previous student "books" have been 75-100 pages in length and of portfolio quality. Students will send chapters to the instructor via attachment to an email message as assigned for feedback and revision direction. The final book will be submitted to the instructor in hard copy and will serve as the portfolio of the class useful to the student as evidence to prospective or current employers of what the student knows and is able to do.
Title page/verso/dedication and appreciation/introduction
Chapter 1: Survey of the Community
Chapter 2: Survey of the Curriculum (school or academic library); Needs Assessment (public or special library)
Chapter 3: Technology Access Chart and Forecast
Chapter 4: Comparison of the Current Collection to Standards/Benchmarks
Chapter 5: Measument of the Quality of the Current Collection
Chapter 6: Collection Maps of physical items and electronic collections
Chapter 7: Proposed Collection Maps
Chapter 8: Budget Documents
Chapter 9: The Acquisition System
Chapter 10: Collection Development Policies
Chapter 11: Reflection on the Process
Office Hours
For Fall 2002, the professor will be available via email at davidl@wahoo.sjsu.edu He is happy to take calls at home in the early morning or late evening. If you need course adaptations or accommodations because of a disability, if you have emergency medical information to share with me, or if you need special arrangement in case the building must be evacuated, please make an appointment with me as soon as possible.
Grading
- Major project 70%
- Class participation (face to face) 10% - missing participation points for a single class will automatically lower your grade to a B. Students may earn participation points during the class period each month located in Northern or Southern California.
- Online participation points 10% -communication on Blackboard with small groups and the class as the whole constitute online participation. Points are given for regular and continuous participation across the semester.
- Log of 350 pages of professional articles or chapters in a collection development text book- - the log of which will be sent to the instructor on Blackboard (this would be the equivalent of reading a textbook for the course) - 10%
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