From:
"Quinn, Brian" <brian.quinn_at_ttu.edu>
Please join us on *Sunday, Jan. 9, from 4:00-5:30 *pm in Room 25 C of
the San Diego Convention Center for the ALCTS Collection Management and
Development Section Forum:
*/Is Selection Dead? The Rise of Collection Management and the Twilight
of Selection/*
Collection development is undergoing a dramatic change. With the rise of
collection management, collection development as we've known it is
becoming a dying art. Title by title selection is rapidly being
replaced by expanding approval plan coverage, aggregator packages, and
"take it or leave it" big deals. Administrators are worried that
traditional selection takes too much time and effort, and the growing
trend toward patron-driven selection, as well as the growth of Google
Books and digital repositories further challenge the traditional roles
of selectors and collection development librarians. What is the overall
impact of these trends? How is our intellectual work and engagement
shifting? As we work in broader strokes selecting packages and
developing digital collections, what are the implications for our
knowledge of our collections overall? Is the shift from collection
development to collection management a process of deprofessionalization
and disintermediation of the selector, or an exciting new model we
should all embrace?
Moderator: Harriet Lightman (Northwestern University)
Panelists: Rick Anderson (University of Utah), Steve Bosch (University
of Arizona), Nancy Gibbs (Duke University), and Reeta Sinha (Baker &
Taylor/YBP).
Received on Thu Dec 09 2010 - 03:09:23 EST