LME 502-Blog 1: Collection Development
- Angel Dominique
- Aug 24, 2016
- 1 min read
Collection development is knowing how to choose resources and access points of interests that will benefit learners no matter their age, race, ethnicity, or disability. It is making choices for your media center that reflects and supports the curriculum, teachers, and students. Your decisions for collection can sometimes include parents and community members. Collection development is setting aside personal biases and making objective choices for your media center along with weeding out materials that may be outdated, incorrect, or destroyed. I believe in this course I will learn the best ways to build a library collection that meets the needs of the county curriculum, teachers’ needs, and students’ needs. This course will answer questions about what I should include in a collection, what should remain in a collection, and what needs to be mended, rebound, or replaced in a current collection.
Resources
Hughes-Hassell, S., & Mancall, J.C. (2005). Collection management for youth:
Responding to the needs of learners. Chicago: American Library Association.
Kalan, A. P. (2014, May 20). The practical librarian’s guide to collection development.
Retrieved August 24, 2016, from Features, https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/
2014/05/20/the-practical-librarians-guide-to-collection-development/
Mardis, M.A., & Bishop, K. (n.d.). The collection program in schools: Concepts and
practices.
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