Shaping Collections - Public
Reports of Regional Consortial Projects
Reports of Regional Consortial Projects
Invited Guests
Overview
Shaping Liberal Arts College Library Collections: New Models and Active Strategies
On October 15-16, 2008, representatives of 36 college libraries and 12 invited guests from other sectors of the library community met at the Franklin D.
Statistics
Summary Statistics of Collections Trends:
For Oberlin Group libraries based on 10 years’ worth of data collected in the Group’s Annual Survey, graphs of such collections indicators as average total print collections, average total acquisitions expenditures, monograph and serial expenditure averages, etc.
Universal Libraries
"Universal" Digital Libraries:
Explores the role of large-scale digitization projects on the future of individual library collections, the book, and scholarly publishing.
Libraries Publishing and Creating Content
Libraries Publishing and Creating Content:
Engages content-creation, storage and access, curation, and legal issues attendant on the role of the library as a “publisher” not only of its own collections, usually in digitized form, but as an outlet for a college’s many products of research and study.
User Behavior
User Behavior:
Raises questions about how users’ preferences for interacting with materials affect decisions about the types and formats of materials collected, access mechanisms and interfaces, and partnerships for housing collections.
Budgets and Organizational Models
Budgets and Organizational Models:
Addresses the need for changes to budgetary and organizational models as college libraries move to new formats and kinds of collections.
Users and Spaces
Users and Spaces:
Given the history of library instruction, the evolution of the learning commons, and the desire to create access for students and faculty to diverse, high quality collections, addresses the ways in which libraries must consider user needs and preferences for study and research with collections and at the same time reconfigure existing space to allow for active learning and engagement.
Collaborative Collection Development Models
Collaborative Collection Development Models:
In the context of the new information environment, discusses the dimensions of collaborative collections work and emerging best practices among college libraries. Based on reports from several college library consortia.
