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A Collection of Importance: The Role of Selection in Academic Libraries

A Collection of Importance: The Role of Selection in Academic Libraries. Bruce Munro & Peter Philps University of New South Wales Library.

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A Collection of Importance: The Role of Selection in Academic Libraries

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  1. A Collection of Importance:The Role of Selection in Academic Libraries Bruce Munro & Peter Philps University of New South Wales Library The authors wish to express their gratitude to ALIA and to YBP/Lindsay & Croft for entrusting them with the Research Award for Collection Services and the valuable assistance of Mary Anne Kennan.

  2. Presentation Outline • Literature • Methodology • Results & Findings

  3. “faculty selection leads to major problems: the wrong books selected because of lack of time, unbalanced collections, and a tendency to overbuy in periodicals, among others. Who, then should select?” (Ryland, 1982) Librarian or Academic? “it is the academic staff who are expected to have the greatest input in the selection process. The assumption is that academic staff, as experts in their discipline are also experts in the most suitable literature in these disciplines for their library’s collections.” (Gorman & Kennedy, 1992)

  4. Collection Development Policy Subject Librarians Library Collection Liaison Librarians Academics Approval Plans

  5. Methodology • Literature Review • Institution Websites • Exploratory/Semi-Structured Interviews

  6. US Bibliographer Model Library Collection Collection Approval Process Approval Plan Bibliographers / Subject Librarians Requesting Process Bibliographers / Subject Librarians Academics/Students

  7. Collection Responsibility Model 1 Library Collection Collection Approval Process Approval Plan Subject Librarians Requesting Process Subject Librarians Academics Students

  8. Collection Responsibility Model 2 Library Collection Collection Approval Process Collection Development Group Approval Plan Subject Librarians Requesting Process Subject Librarians Academics Students

  9. Conclusion • Subject specialist librarians • Collection development policies • Communication

  10. Bibliography • Fales, S. L., Ed. (1996). Guide for training collection development librarians. Chicago, American Library Association • Gorman, G.E. & Kennedy, J. (1992). Collection development for Australian libraries, Wagga Wagga, Centre for Information Studies • Leonard, B. G., (1994) “A view from across the Pacific: the role of the academic librarian in the selection of monographs”, Australian Academic and Research Libraries, v.25 n.1 • Ryland, J., (1982) “Collection development andselection: Who should do it?”, Library Acquisitions: Practice and Theory, v.6

  11. We wish to acknowledge the following organisations for their support and assistance: • University Library, University of New South Wales • YBP/Lindsay & Croft • Australian Library and Information Association • Group of 8 libraries

  12. Questions? Fremantle, WA. YPB/LC Award recipients at CLICK06

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