From: "Howard, Kristina" <Kristina.Howard_at_Trinity.edu>
Dear Practitioners-
Our group is working on a project for a collection development
class, and we need your assistance.
We are identifying and studying factors that contribute to/or
falsify our hypothesis that interest in collection development
courses has been on the decline. We also speculate that library
programs are placing less emphasis on the importance of collection
development as part of a core library education. We will be
sending a survey corresponding to the one below to library
educators asking them to rate similar criteria, and then
make comparisons between the educators' and practitioners'
responses.
Your input is very valuable to our survey, and we appreciate
the time you will take answering the following questions.
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All responses will be confidential and reported without
identifying either the authors or the institutions. I will
summarize all responses for the list. (sorry for any cross
postings)
Thanks,
Kristina Howard, Stephen Cooper, & Mariela Hristova
Graduate School of Information, University of Texas
SURVEY:
1) Number of years working in the library field?
2) What type of library do you work in?
3) What is your job title and collection development responsibilities?
4) What portion of your time is spent on collection development responsibilities?
5) By what means do you think collection development skills or knowledge should
be acquired? (Rank on scale 1-7: 1 being the least important and 7 being the
highest)
____Course in library school (required or elective)
____Internships or other practical experience as part of a student's curriculum
____On-the-job training (apart from or after school)
____Attendance at institutes, workshops, etc.
6) Rank how well your master's education prepared you for collection development
responsibilities. (scale of 1-7)
7) In your opinion, what will happen to collection development in the future?
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Received on Fri Apr 18 2003 - 08:21:42 EDT