LIS 522 - Day one
Posting class notes again, because my hands are tired and don't want to write.
I really need to get my O key fixed. I cannot believe this class is freaking 3 hours long.
Helene Williams
Collection Development
Office hours before class
In the first five minutes, she has asserted that Harvard's library is in fact on another planet that has only recently reached the 20th century and that she enjoyed freaking out the processor by ordering manga for the library there. We should get along just fine.
What we are doing here:
Have a framework and a process so you can justify your decisions
Make the decisions as an informed developer
We will be roleplaying staff meetings
(apparently, our professional lives will be taken over by them)
Assess user needs
We are not writing a whole cd policy (yay)
Response paper
Brief, respond to a reading on a cd topic of personal professional interest
"Two pages double spaced with a couple original thoughts"
And then we get to present it in the staff meeting
Assessment - what you have (or what went missing)
Selection - what you would like to have
Also, go watch Office Space
What is collection development
Building, weeding, maintaining a collection working with a budget meeting the changing needs of users, and justifying the decisions you make in order to do that
By Monday -
Email Helene with topic for response paper/staff meeting talk
Read a third of the textbook *you must be joking*
So far I love this class
I really need to get my O key fixed. I cannot believe this class is freaking 3 hours long.
Helene Williams
Collection Development
Office hours before class
In the first five minutes, she has asserted that Harvard's library is in fact on another planet that has only recently reached the 20th century and that she enjoyed freaking out the processor by ordering manga for the library there. We should get along just fine.
What we are doing here:
Have a framework and a process so you can justify your decisions
Make the decisions as an informed developer
We will be roleplaying staff meetings
(apparently, our professional lives will be taken over by them)
Assess user needs
We are not writing a whole cd policy (yay)
Response paper
Brief, respond to a reading on a cd topic of personal professional interest
"Two pages double spaced with a couple original thoughts"
And then we get to present it in the staff meeting
Assessment - what you have (or what went missing)
Selection - what you would like to have
Also, go watch Office Space
What is collection development
Building, weeding, maintaining a collection working with a budget meeting the changing needs of users, and justifying the decisions you make in order to do that
By Monday -
Email Helene with topic for response paper/staff meeting talk
Read a third of the textbook *you must be joking*
So far I love this class