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Collection Evaluation
LIB 630 Classification and CatalogingSpring 2012
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Collection Assessment Manual, Network of Alabama Academic Libraries
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3What is collection evaluation?
• Try this one: – Collection assessment
• The systematic evaluation of the quality of a library collection to determine the extent to which it meets the library’s service goals and objectives and the information needs of its clientele. Deficiencies are addressed through collection development. Synonymous with collection evaluation.
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4Another definition?
• Collection assessment is – “an organized process for systematically
analyzing and describing a library’s collection.”• Collection Assessment & Mapping
Defining the Concepts
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5Why assess the collection?
• Reasons for Doing an Assessment– Collection assessment or collection mapping provides library
administrators with a management tool for adapting the collection, an internal analysis tool for planning, a tool to respond systematically to budget changes, and a communication tool and data for resource sharing with other libraries. Library staff can also benefit by having a better understanding of the collection, a basis for more selective collection development, improved communication with similar libraries, and enhanced professional skills in collection development. • Collection Assessment & Mapping
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6Collection Assessment
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7Example with a 5th grade science collection
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Some points to remember
• Sound familiar?
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9Types of Collection Assessment?
1. Quantitative
– Another kind of quantitative measure looks at the number of items added to the collection in a particular subject area during the previous year.
– In academic or school libraries, another measure that is sometimes used is a measure of the number of items per student in a particular program or the number of items that would support a particular course of study.
http://lili.org/forlibs/ce/able/course2/05measures1.htm
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10Types of collection assessment?
2. Qualitative
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11Newtonian physics
• Newton first used the word spectrum (Latin for “appearance” or “apparition”) in print in 1671 in describing his experiments in optics.
• Newton observed that when a narrow beam of sunlight strikes the face of a glass prism at an angle, some is reflected and some of the beam passes into and through the glass, emerging as different colored bands. – Visible spectrum From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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12Spectrum requires a prism
• Estonian composer Arvo Pärt:– I could compare my music to
white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener. • about his music: Alina
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13Prism as a filter
• Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin:– The biographer finds that the past is
not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image. • Goodwin, Doris Kearns (1979).
‘‘Angles of Vision’’, in: Mark Pachter (Ed.), Telling Lives: the biographer’s art. Washington, DC: New Republic Books. Cited in Debate and Reflection: How to Write Journalism History
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14The goal of collection building?
Amanda Credaro:
“. . . the ultimate goal of collection development must be to create a ‘balanced’ collection . . .”
• The Use of Reviewing Journals in School Libraries
balanced
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15What do you mean, balanced?
Credaro:“. . . there is disagreement as to what actually constitutes a ‘balanced’ collection.”
• equal numbers of print and non-print resources?
• materials that present the arguments for both sides on controversial issues?
• a combination of both “demand” items and quality resources?
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16How can we tell?
How do we know when we have “a well-balanced collection that meets the needs of our users”?
“To evaluate the results of any particular intervention, we need to be able to clearly identify and define the desired state.”• T. Scott Plutchak, “
The art and science of making choices,” Journal of the Medical Library Association 2003 January; 91(1): 1–3.
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17Define your desired state!
•What is your library’s mission?
•Where, then, will be your point of balance?
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18A prism to view the full balanced spectrum
• Personal
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Real
Invented
SMiley face
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19Two Continuums
•Real Invented
•Personal Smiley Face
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20Put ‘em together!
Personal
SMiley
Real
Invented
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Application to Collections???
. . . And, for example, Dragons????
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22Top Left Sector of Matrix
Up close and personal—and real!Real
Personal
Folklore: Folklore is the body of expressive culture, including tales, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, material culture, and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or group. (Wikipedia)
Invented
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23Dragons in folklore23
http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/articles/mythology_folklore/dragons.asp
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24Bottom Left Sector of Matrix
• Invented, but Personal RealP
ersonal Invented
Quality literature, sometimes adaptations, or else original
writing, with universal appeal and meaning for everyman
and everywoman
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25An invented dragon who is very personal (if not exactly loveable!)
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26A good invented dragon
• My Father’s Dragon– A Newbery Honor–winning title
and a favorite among children, My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett, is a humorous adventure story about a clever and resourceful boy named Elmer Elevator, who runs away to Wild Island to rescue a baby dragon.• My Father’s Dragon
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27Top Right of the Matrix
• Real Smileys!
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Real
Recognizable stories, but unoriginal and shallow
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28Dragon stories that are real smileys?
• . . . The tone and style suggest Saturday-morning animated films and will appeal to the same audience. For humorous adventure fantasy that is better crafted and more nourishing, try Jon Scieszka’s Knights of the Kitchen Table (Viking, 1991) and other works in the “Time Warp Trio” series.– Virginia Golodetz, Children's
Literature New England, Burlington, VT (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc.
– Review cited by Durham Public Library
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29Bottom Right of the Matrix
• Invented smileys [perhaps contrived?]
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Invented
Generic, unoriginal, impersonal, shallow
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30An invented “smiley” dragon?
• What about the Dazzling Dragon?– When Princess Daisy hears that a real dragon is being
brought into the Princess Academy, she is terrified. What will her friends think of her being such a scaredy cat? But later Princess Daisy has a chance to show how brave she really is...
• Blurb from The Tiara Club website
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31How to use this PRISM?
• Evaluation instrument– Part of inventory or selection/acquisition
• Create a scattergram
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Personal
Real
Invented
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• Especially controversial ones!
Balancing issues32
Personal
COUNTERISSUE
ISSUE
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Creationism
Evolution
Personal
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Print vs. online
Personal
Print Sources
Online Sources
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/ http://www.mugglenet.com
The originalnovels
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35Results of Collection Assessment
• Selection of new materials
• Repair of existing materials
• Deselection of existing materials
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36Repairing library materials
• Questions to ask:– When to repair and when to remove the
item?– How much to spend on repair?– What techniques to use to repair?– Who pays for the repair?
• The user or the library?• Or does the user lose borrowing privileges or
receive some other form of punishment?
– Who decides?
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37Deselection
• Definition?– In book and nonprint collections, the
process of identifying titles for weeding, usually on the basis of currency, usage, and condition. The opposite of selection.• Deselection, ODLIS
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38What is weeding?
• Weeding Your Library by Perma-Bound– Weeding is the periodic and continual evaluation
of your library’s resources with the goal of removing obsolete, damaged, and rarely used books. Weeding ensures that your library’s materials are useful, attractive, and accessible to your patrons. Every library’s print collection is limited by the space available, and collections must change over time to reflect changes in the community and in the library’s goals.
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39A Useful Acronym
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