From: "Jagodzinski, Cecile" <cjagodzi_at_indiana.edu>
COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT LIBRARIANS OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIES DISCUSSION GROUP
Saturday, June 26, 2004
2-4 p.m.
Peabody Hotel, Plaza International Room, Ballroom D.
Collection development librarians are invited to join a discussion on
three current topics of interest: the nuts and bolts of collection
management and the education of new collection managers, restructuring
organizations to encourage effective collaboration, and working to
develop new mechanisms for disseminating the results of scholarly
research. The discussions will take place on Saturday, June 26, 2004
from 2-4 p.m. in the Plaza International Room of the Peabody Hotel.
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Collection Development: The Manual Revisited
Sherri L. Barnes
Humanities Collection Coordinator
University of California, Santa Barbara
barnes_at_library.ucsb.edu
Modern day collection management in an academic library is a
multifaceted experience that requires a range of skills, and intellect.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara Libraries a Web-based
"collection manager's manual"
(http://www.library.ucsb.edu/collman/index.html) is maintained to assist
librarians with the nuts and bolts, as well as the more subjective
aspects, of managing library collections. Embedded in the manual are
the discussion notes from a series of collection development
orientations designed and implemented by the Task Force for New
Collection Managers, which also facilitated the production of the
manual. Collection managers refer to the manual when they have
procedural or policy questions related to the countless collection
development tasks, situations, and responsibilities that surface
regularly, whether related to approval plans, faculty liaison practices,
interacting with cataloging and acquisitions, negotiating licensing
agreements, developing subject expertise; or budget management. The
manual reflects the rapidly changing roles of collection development
librarians working in a networked information environment.
Organizational Change at the University of Kansas
Susanne Clement
Head of Collection Development
University of Kansas
sclement_at_ku.edu
The University of Kansas recently completed restructuring its subject
bibliographers into teams that will align them more closely with a
changing university structure. We created four subject councils
(science and technology, humanities, language and culture, and social
science) thereby allowing bibliographers with related disciplines to
work more closely together within a structured environment. This
presentation will cover the conceptual ideas behind this move, the
impact on collection development as well as some of the practical
problems of implementation.
Collection Development Librarians Confront the Open Access Movement:
Liberation or Confusion?
Allan Scherlen
Collection Development Librarian for the Social Sciences
Appalachian State University
scherlnag_at_appstate.edu
The increasing cost of commercial scholarly journal subscriptions has
led to efforts to develop an alternate model of scholarly publishing
referred to as the Open Access Initiative. This movement ideally seeks
to provide peer-reviewed scholarly articles free on the Internet. A
major topic in academic news these days, Open Access journals and
archives continue to grow in number, credibility, and impact, forcing
publishers, librarians and scholars to take careful notice. Collection
development librarians, in particular, have a key role in evaluating
these new sources of scholarly communication, reconciling them against
established traditional publications, many of which are locked into big
deal packages, while providing access and, perhaps, advocacy.
Cecile M. Jagodzinski
Chair, Collection Development in Academic Libraries Discussion Group
cjagodzi_at_indiana.edu
Received on Sun May 30 2004 - 20:06:46 EDT