Transcript Don’t panic!

Your Guide to Total Collection Development Policy Revision
DON’T PANIC!
What do you do?
Long overdue change is coming. You are
tasked with rewriting the library’s collection
development policy. Do you…
a) Cower under your desk and hope they
forget you’re there?
b) Change the revision date on the old
policy, since no one ever reads it
anyway.
c) Attend this groovy conference session
and get some ideas!
And ‘c’ is the correct answer!
(Hope you didn’t have to think about it too hard!)
Starting Points
 Old Policy—where we’ve come from.
 User Surveys—where we’re going.
 Mission Statement—guiding principles
 Literature Review
 Collection development bibliography
 Collection development policies of similar libraries
Ye Olde Policy-some problems
A policy that just describes
what is on the shelf is not a
real policy.
No language about electronic
resources.
No real direction, no areas of
emphasis.
Ye Olde Policy-what can be
salvaged?
Some selection level description
touched on what should be
collected.
Hints about future direction of the
collection.
History.
User Surveys
 Home grown product, paid service, or free
online survey
 Invaluable information
Mission Statement
Created by law as Missouri's official library agency,
the Missouri State Library is a division of the
Secretary of State's Office. The mission of the
Reference Services Division of the Missouri State
Library is to provide direct library and
information service to meet the informational
and research needs of state government.
 The State Library is a statutory agency and is
operated under legislative mandate as found in
Chapter 181 of MISSOURI REVISED STATUTES.
Literature Review:
bibliography
Literature Review-policies
 Texas State Library
 Connecticut State Library
 New York State Library
Brushing away the cobwebs
Get ready for some heavy cogitation.
Brush away the cobwebs
Old modes of thought need not apply…
A shift in direction
a 2006 survey revealed our heaviest users of
electronic resources are engaged in scientific
research in social, medical, and environmental
sciences. Respondents to this survey reported a
desire for online access to academic, peerreviewed research journals and document delivery
of articles directly to their desktops. Having such
intensive users in a diverse array of workspaces
throughout the state of Missouri dictates a shift
toward remotely accessible resources.