From: Marlene Manoff <mmanoff_at_MIT.EDU>
ALCTS/CMDS Collection Development in Academic Libraries Discussion
Group
Saturday June 27, 2:00 - 4:00, CHIL-Congresssional
Topic: Bias in Academic Library Collections
Are institutional and market forces conspiring to impoverish academic
library collections? Are the explosion of serial prices, the shift of
monies to electronic resources and our dependance on approval plans
exacerbating a move in the direction of less diverse and more
mainstream collections? Are we acting as gatekeepers, participating in
larger institutional patterns of exclusion? If so, what can we do to
make available more heterogeneous materials? What kinds of strategies
might help to counter a narrowing and homogenization of academic
library collections?
Panelists: Byron Anderson, Head Reference, University Libraries,
Northern Illinois University, Mev Miller, Project Coordinator, Women's
Presses Library Project and Milton Wolf, Vice President for Collection
Programs, The Center for Research Libraries
Received on Mon Jun 15 1998 - 12:43:15 EDT