GREENSHEET
Important Note to all students taking this course Summer 2004: The communication part of this course will be conducted on a distance education program titled Blackboard. You must register (no fee) before June. 5. 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 a web page at www.davidvl.org. 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, complete the form at: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/listsubscriptions.html 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 all the school's electronic lists, please check out: http://slisweb.sjsu.edu/ecommunication/electroniclists.htm
Summer Class Dates and times: (attendance required - you may attend either north or south each month)
Class #1
North: June 5, 1-4pm, San Jose Campus, D403
South: not taught this term
Class #2
North: July 10, 1-4pm San Jose Campus
South:
Class #3
North Aug. 7, San Jose Campus
South:
Class #4
Projects due: Aug. 15
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. 4th ed. Libraries Unlimited, 2000. - good for most types of libraries. (paper: $49.50)
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. For the school librarian.
Johnson, Peggy. Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management. American Library Association, 2003.
Burgett, James, John Haar, and Linda L. Phillips. Collaborative Collection Development. American Library Association, 2004.
3. Library Access:
Access to the electronic reserve collection of San Jose State University Library attached to this web page 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 King 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
Home address:
312 South 1000 East
Salt Lake City UT 84102
801-532-1165 home
801-755-1122 cell phone
DavidL@slis.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 PowerPoint presentations in a complete analysis of an actual collection. Presentations will be loaded on a web site for easy access, one presentation per topic. The presentations will be brought to the second and third classes, where their content will be compared and contrasted with those from other libraries of the same and differing types. Final slides to each topic will then be added to the presentations based on class work. The final examination will consist of a brief paper reflecting on the process and the product.
Presentation 1: Survey of the Community
Presentation 2: Survey of the Curriculum (school or academic library); Needs Assessment (public or special library)
Presentation 3: Technology Access Chart and Forecast
Presentation 4: Comparison of the Current Collection to Standards/Benchmarks
Presentation 5: Measument of the Quality of the Current Collection
Presentation 6: Collection Maps of physical items and electronic collections
Presentation 7: Proposed Collection Maps
Presentation 8: Budget Documents
Presentation 9: The Acquisition System
Presentation 10: Collection Development Policies
Paper 11: Reflection on the Process
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Office Hours
For Summer 2004, the professor will be available via email at davidl@slis.sjsu.edu He is happy to take calls at home at any time including early morning and 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.
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Grading
Presentations - 10 points each
Class attendance is required because each presentation will require conmpare/contrast slides only available from fellow students. Each class attendance earns 10 points.
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 via email attachment (this would be the equivalent of reading a textbook for the course) - 30 points
Final exam 20 points (A brief paper reflecting on the collection development process in the library studied and in the profession as a whole).
Disability
If you need any special consideration due to a disability, you need to register with the SJSU Disability Resource Center and notify the instructor by the second week of classes.
Plagiarism
All assignments submitted must be your own work. Sources must be properly cited in papers. Those found plagiarizing will automatically fail the course and may be subjedct to other administrative penalties. The San Jose State University regulations governing plagiarism will be enforced. Those regulations may be found at: http://info.sjsu.edu search option: Academic Dishonesty.
Current Academic Senate Policy:
University Policy F88-10 http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/f88-10.htm
University Policy S98-1 (amends F88-10) http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/s98-1.htm
University Policy S02-4 (amends S98-1) http://www.sjsu.edu/senate/S02-4.htm
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