Subject: Collection development for leadership studies
From: Michelle Twait <mtwait_at_gustavus.edu>
Greetings,
I work at a small liberal arts college and have been invited to join a
campus work group focused on a strategic leadership initiative
(creating paths for our students to develop as leaders).
My role on the committee, as I see it, is to figure out how the
library can support scholarly research on leadership (servant
leadership, in particular) and provide resources to the campus community.
I am hoping that those of you on this listserv that work with
leadership studies or liaison to departments with courses on
leadership might have some advice for me. Perhaps there are certain
publishers you tend to gravitate toward? Journals you'd recommend
having as part of a "core" leadership collection? Also, how do you
manage the popular nonfiction leadership books - of which there are
so, so many! Do you have any collection development policies related
to leadership material?
Normally, we'd simply work with suggestions from our faculty. And I'm
assuming we would have some help from faculty in this endeavor.
However, this initiative would not be housed in any one department and
so it will be a librarian who would handle most of the collection
development (most likely me!).
Thanks so much for your time and for any advice/information you might
provide.
Best regards,
Michelle Twait
Received on Thu Feb 14 2008 - 02:49:34 EST