Developing a training program for collection managers

Forte, Eric; Chiu, Cathy; Barnes, Sherri; DeDecker, Sherry; colmenar, g; Pickett, Carmelita; Lewis, Sandy; Johns, Cecily

doi:10.1080/14649055.2002.10765861

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“…The American Library Association (ALA) Guide to Training Collection Development Librarians, published in 1996, features 14 training modules, with recommended competencies and activities. Eric Forte et al (2002) developed 8 broad categories, which were used to structure their training program. William Fisher (2001) listed the 25 most frequently cited competencies with no particular grouping.…”

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Collection Development Competencies for Science and Technology Libraries

Leach¹

2008

Science & Technology Libraries

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This paper focuses on both traditional and current competencies-defined as the knowledge, and skills and abilities to carry out one's responsibilities in building relevant collection for given user populations in a specific institutional and scholarly environment, some of the competencies are broad and theoretical, while others are specific and highly technical. Both approaches are needed especially in an era of rapid change. Itself, is another key competency-mastering this will help the science collections librarian, and the collections they build remain relevant well into, the future.

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Collection Development Competencies for Science and Technology Libraries

Leach¹

2008

Science & Technology Libraries

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“…Eric Forte and his colleagues described a training program for collection managers at the University of California, Santa Barbara in which a task force of new and experienced collection managers developed a checklist of major topics and used this to guide the development of the training plan. The program resulted in the creation of UCSB's Collection Managers' Manual, and its authors praised "the opportunity for collection managers and technical services personnel to ask questions and have informal discussions has opened up a new and continuing dialogue between both groups" (Forte et al, 2002). The manual, consisting of a series of links to various documents and resources about acquisitions as well as resources, continues to be updated.…”

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Revising a Collection Development Manual: Challenges and Opportunities

Lupkin¹,

Bremholm²,

Wedig³

2014

Too Much Is Not Enough!

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“…Many of them also lack adequate training for handling enormous and complex task of collection development. Knowledge gathered from LIS training also helps them little as hardly any library school around the globe teaches nuances and complexities of collection development [6][7][8] . Collection development is not to be seen merely as an administrative function.…”

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Collection Development in Indian Academic Libraries: An Empirical Approach to Determine the Number of Copies for Acquisition ,,

Giri

Sen

Mahesh

2015

DJLIT

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Collection development in academic libraries has many challenges and one of them concerns determining the number of copies of some books that are required in multiple copies in the library. In the present study, five major academic libraries in New Delhi were surveyed to understand the prevalent policies and practices on determining the number of copies of books that are required in multiple copies. It was found that there was no consistency in the approach to deciding the number of copies in the libraries studied. Further it was noted that all the libraries arbitrarily decided on the number of copies to be purchased. The paper discusses a method that has been evolved to determine the number of copies. The method has been applied in one of the academic libraries under study which when combined with other measures have been found to be more effective in determining the number of copies required.

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Developing a training program for collection managers

Cited by 5 publications

References 1 publication

Collection Development Competencies for Science and Technology Libraries

Collection Development Competencies for Science and Technology Libraries

Revising a Collection Development Manual: Challenges and Opportunities

Collection Development in Indian Academic Libraries: An Empirical Approach to Determine the Number of Copies for Acquisition ,,

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