Re: Starting a collection from scratch

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Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:41:20 -0500
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If you can get an idea of the anticipated enrollment in the courses for
those three areas, that would give you an idea of relative proportions
between them.
Lauren
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Lauren Corbett
Director of Resource Services, Z. Smith Reynolds Library
Wake Forest University
Ph: 336-758-6136



On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 4:56 PM, <acqnet-l_at_lists.ibiblio.org> wrote:

> Good Afternoon,
>
> My college opened a new campus and so we have to set up the library from
> scratch. I am handling the collection development aspect of it, however I
> have never built a collection from scratch.  My question is: "How to I
> appropriate the resources for the collection, I have selected 3 main areas
> from the list of course offerings at that particular campus, but I am still
> not sure how to assign 'x' percentage of resources to a particular subject
> area.  Is that the correct approach?
>
> Any advice given will be greatly appreciated. I will also compile and
> share so that other newbies can benefit.
>
>  Regards,
> Jiselle Alleyne
>
>
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