Bay of Plenty Polytechnic

Presenter:

Collection Management for 21st Century Learning

Collection Management in a connected worldJoanna Thomas

www.etv.org.nz

The Collection?

“The total accumulation of materials assembled by a library, whether physically held in a Library or accessed electronically. The material is selected and organised and made available to library users.”

Collection Management activities

Access CataloguingPlanningPolicy BudgetingCommunity liaisonCopyrightCensorship

WeedingWebsite developmentDisaster planningContractsNew resource assessmentPrioritisingPromotion

Collection Development Policy

• Based on knowledge of students and staff needs• Consultation• Management approval• Policy questions• Continuity • Future focused – a tool to help you get where you

want to be• National Library Services to Schools

New challenges

• What are the collection management challenges in your library?

• What successful things are you doing that you were’nt doing 2 years ago?

Trends

• E-books• E-journals• Digital video

http://www.boppoly.ac.nz/go/library/

Challenges

• Free and open access vs pay and copyrighted• Ethical use of information• Integrating diversity of information resources

available

http://boppoly.summon.serialssolutions.com/

http://www.waikato.ac.nz/library/

http://www2.hud.ac.uk/cls/library/