Collection development in interesting times: a summary

Gorman, Michael

doi:10.1016/j.lcats.2003.09.010

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“…There appear to have been relatively few formal research studies aimed at theory building around the idea of library collections. Gorman (2000;2003) suggests new conceptual approaches to collection development in the digital world, describing four levels of resources, based on their degree of organization and the ease with which they can be accessed (Gorman, 2003). Lee (2000;2003a;2003b;2005;2008;1993) provides some interesting examples of how work in this field can be conducted, based on research projects which move from focusing on collection management and control issues presented by pressures on library space (Lee, 1993), to exploring concepts of collection (Lee, 2000;2005), and on to investigating aspects of users' information behavior (Lee, 2008).…”

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Exploring Concepts of “Collection” in the Digital World

Roberts¹

2013

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Exploring Concepts of “Collection” in the Digital World

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2013

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“…3 This reflects several major developments, such as the establishment of resource-sharing networks (e.g., interlibrary systems and union catalogs), the increasing importance of digital materials for education and scholarship, and the growing availability of free digital resources that are deemed valuable to students, faculty, and other researchers. The challenge lies in how to balance libraries' finite resources of money, time, and energy against these several directions of collection focus.…”

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Challenges and Possibilities for Collection Management in a Digital Age

Horava¹

2010

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This paper considers some of the major issues concerning collection management in academic libraries in a rapidly changing environment. Specifically, this paper reflects on core values, scholarly communication issues, acquisition activities, access and delivery issues, and innovation. The paper concludes with ideas for incorporating shifts in these areas into a sustainable, forward-looking approach to collection management.W hat is collection management in the digital age? Our environment is fast-paced, driven by rapid changes in information technology, emerging areas of interdisciplinary research, a profusion of new digital resources, budget constraints, changes in teaching practices and learner expectations, and shifting institutional policies and priorities. What happens to collection management in this sea of information resources and formats, access methods, and budgetary choices? This paper seeks to answer this question by exploring collection management in terms of core values, scholarly communication issues, acquisitions activities, access and delivery issues, and innovation. It concludes with reflections for charting the future of collection management.We can begin by asking what can be a valid and tenable concept of collection management. The problem is far more complicated than it was in the predigital age. Collection size and scope, as determined by holdings counts, particular strengths, and unique materials, were formerly understood in relation to institutional mission and programs. The "tonnage" model of collection building traditionally has been focused on breadth and scope of owned resources, although this is starting to change as the importance of access to leased resources is recognized. Mapping resources to an institution's collective needs was challenging but not impossible. The universe of available publications and formats was finite; with professional experience, one could connect the dots to recognize its size and scale in relation to a specific collection's desired parameters. Johnson notes that collection management was proposed as a concept in the 1980s: "It includes collection development and an expanded suite of decisions about weeding, cancelling serials, storage, and preservation." 1 While these core activities remain integral to our work, their scope has altered significantly. Selection of new material, weeding of less important items, storage off-site, and preservation in various formats are best understood in the

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“…Building on her earlier work, Lee (2003) also proposes a concentric circles model of the information universe, but goes beyond Gorman's (2000Gorman's ( , 2003a conception by including researchers' personal collections in her model, which is based on interviews with academic staff and aims to reflect users' perspectives on the information environment supporting their research and teaching. Her model has three layers characterised as the 'immediate space', 'adjunct space' and 'outside space' and is interesting in including an aggregation of personal physical collections, personal digital resources and library electronic resources in the centre, while relegating the library's physical resources to the middle circle.…”

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“…Conceptual models such as Gorman's (2000Gorman's ( , 2003a) and Lee's (2003) provide useful frameworks for thinking about information resources and collections, but cannot adequately capture the complexity of the contemporary information universe. In addition to electronic versions of traditional library materials, such as text books and reference works, newspapers and periodicals, theses and dissertations, archives and manuscripts, maps and photographs, music and film, there are web-based information resources with no direct print equivalents, including listservs (email discussion lists) and chatrooms, blogs and wikis, where the content is not only dynamic, because it is being continually edited, revised and supplemented, but also user-generated, as people engage in continuous role-switching between information user and information producer.…”

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“…Many libraries established new teams and/or specialist positions to deal with new formats, but often as temporary structures to manage the transition (Dorner, 2004). Many libraries also used separate budgets for hardcopy and electronic resources, which Gorman (2003a) rightly criticises as inappropriate. Demas (1998, p. 158) revisits Buckland's (1995) question about the role of collection development in the specific context of digitisation, arguing that this is an area where the art of value-based selection -rather than the science of demand-driven selection -is needed to build "a network of national and international digital libraries".…”

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The concept of collection development in the digital world

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Collection Development in the Digital Age

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The concept of collection development is central to the professional practice of librarianship as the whole notion of a library is fundamentally associated with the idea of a collection, to the extent that the words 'library' and 'collection' are almost synonymous. Other terms such as 'information centre' 'learning centre' or 'discovery centre' are often used now instead of 'library' and terms such as 'information resources' may be substituted for 'library collections', but the activities and processes traditionally associated with collection development are still essential to the effective functioning of contemporary library, information, learning and knowledge services, even though they may look and feel quite different to their historical counterparts. Our concern here is to explore the concept of collection development in the digital library and information environment and in particular to examine how thinking and practice in this vital area of library and information management have developed and changed in response to advances in digital technologies. What are the similarities and differences between collection development yesterday and today? Investigating such questions should help to prepare us for dealing with the collections of tomorrow.The chapter therefore starts by examining a few definitions of the library as a collection to demonstrate the centrality of collection development to library and information professionals. It moves on next to the more problematic issue of collection development as a concept, showing how professional discourse on the subject has suffered from confused terminology. It then uses a convenient four-phase framework to review the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on libraries, concentrating on effects on collections and their development. The final part of the chapter returns to academic and practitioner conceptions of collection development in digital environments, concluding with a set of questions for reflection on the future of collection development.

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Collection development in interesting times: a summary

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