Shaping Collections - Public

Colorado

Consortial Collection Development Projects for Colorado

 

The Planning Group

 The Planning Group:

Background Papers

Background Papers for the Discussion on Shaping Collections

 

Workshop Participants

Workshop Participants:

Representatives of 36 college libraries attended the workshop on "Shaping Liberal Arts College Library Collections: New Models and Active Strategies".  The specific members from these institutions are described in the attached document (see below).  In addition, 12 invited guests (appearing on the next page) also participated in the workshop.

The 36 original institutions were:

 

Outcomes

Outcomes of the Workshop and Continuing Activities:

Going into the workshop, the sponsors and planners hoped that it would advance the conversation nationally about twenty-first century library collections and that it would seed an ongoing conversation within the Oberlin Group and beyond with the following outcomes:

Agenda

Shaping Liberal Arts College Library Collections:  New Models and Active Strategies Workshop on October 15-16, 2008 Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum (Hyde Park, NY) and Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY)

The purpose of the meeting was to identify and synthesize best practices in collection development, and to serve as a forum for stimulating, broadening, and advancing the conversation nationally about shaping twenty-first century liberal arts college collections.

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