Presentation 3 will combine two visuals of the Library Collection: The Current Collection Map & the Proposed Collection Map

Below, see the directions for the current collection map, followed by the directions for the proposed collection map. Both collection maps will be uploaded to Canvas in the slot for Presentation 3.

Presentation 3: Current Collection Map Infographic

Current Collection Map Draft Due Workshop 3, Proposed Collection Map Draft due Workshop 4; see Calendar for due date. Final Due 1 Week after Workshop 4

Third ed. textbook chapters 5, 7-10

Goal:  Create an infographic that could display in a public place in the library that would show representations of core and emphasis collection strengths and weaknesses at the current time.

Product: A collection map in infographic format with speaker notes.

Tips: for Construction of the Collection Map

The Collection Map is a visual representation of the strengths of various segments of your library's collection (both physical and digital). It pictures:

• The core collection

• Topical General Emphasis Collections

• Topical Special Emphasis Collections

The map must show both size and quality of each of the above collection segments. 

The map must picture topical collections. A topic is a subject collection such as The Civil War, American Poetry, Christianity, etc. 

You may not draw collection maps of specific formats such as books, DVDs, Periodicals, Audio Collections, etc. Formats are not topics. However, the first panel might be devoted to the general collection by format. This might give the viewer a general glimpse of what the library provides. The rest of the panels concentrate on core and emphasis collections by topic.

Do not use either Dewey or LC classifications to represent on the collection map. For example: if you wanted to picture U.S. history, it would not just be in the 973s of Dewey, but would appear in almost every other main class such as religious history of the U.S. being in the 200s and biographies will be in a separate section or 921s of Dewey.

Examples of general emphasis collections vs. specific emphasis collections might be:

• U.S. Civil War... Civil War Battles

• American History...Colonial History

• Multicultural literacy...African American Literature

• Popular music...Hip Hop music

• Indiana History...Fort Wayne History

• Botany...Iris

The Core collection is the foundation of many collections.  It contains many general items on a wide variety of topics of interest to the patrons but certainly not in-depth coverage of anything.  It is a mile wide and and inch deep.

Check out Chapter 8 and 9 of the textbook for ideas and tools to use in constructing your map. This would be a good place to experiment with an infographic using some experimental software noted in the digital chapter 6A that the instructor will be sharing with you. Many students prefer Piktochart, but there is a wide variety of infographic software out there.

Then, before you submit it to the instructor a week later, create a set of speaker notes as if you were a docent standing before the collection map and explaining it to a touring group.  You can add the speaker notes as a Google document or and provide the URL for the map. Your instructor will look at the infographic as he listens to your speaker notes.

Post your draft collection map to the appropriate galley below before workshop four and the revised version, along with speaker notes,  after your instructor has approved it in Canvas. The gallery has a place for every brief summaries of your maps.  

While giving your tour of the map (in speaker notes), be sure to include the following:

• how you collected your data

• how you made both the qualitative and quantitative judgments that led to the graphic 

• describe each segment of the map as if I were visiting the library for the first time

• describe discrepancies between digital and physical formats 

Approval Needed Before You Begin

Obtain approval from your instructor of the collection you are going to study before you begin.  Send your proposal to Dr. L at reader.david@gmail.com.

Collections that will not be approved:

• The book collection

• The fiction collection

• The database collection unless you are studying something like the San Francisco Public Library or Stanford University...

Note that you need to study something that has a range of formats such as books, DVDs, databases, multimedia, etc. and something that has a number of topics that can be examined, evaluated, and are candidates for improvement.

Presentation 3: Proposed Collection Map; Budget InfographIc

Draft Due for Workshop 4, final due one week later

Goal: To create a collection map that projects the future of the collection owned alongside the concept of connection development.

Product: A collection map in infographic format with speaker notes.

Tips: Proposed Collection Map and the Budget

The goal is to produce a proposed collection map that shows targets for the growth and development of the collection over a time period you designate.

Part 1: Create the Proposed Collection Map infographic

Create a graphic that can be shown to a non-librarian audience. This graphic can be placed along side your current collection map.  The first shows the status of the current collection. 

For this map, you will need to repeat each collection segment of the previous map, but show where it will be moving and changing. For each collection segment pictured, make sure that you  indicate Build, Maintain, or downsize; Quality indicators of your target, and the money needed to build or maintain the collection.

Remember that you can add new emphasis collections to this infographic that were not on the current collection map. These will be topics that you will be building to pull them out of core collection status into the emphasis collections.

Post your rough draft to the appropriate gallery where your Pres. 3 map was placed. Make sure that your revised collection map from pres. 3 is on the left and your draft proposed collection map is on the right for comparison by the entire class.

After your proposed collection map has been approved and graded by the instructor, add the revision to the gallery if you have had to revise it.

Part 2:

Before submitting your final proposed collection map to Canvas, create a set of speaker notes as if you were a docent standing before the collection map and explaining it to a touring group. You can add the speaker notes on Canvas as a word document or text file and provide the URL for the map. Your instructor will look at the infographic as he listens to your speaker notes.

You should include the following in your speaker notes:

• Explain the current budget.

• Who is going to give you advice to build, maintain, or "let it die" over the next logical time period?

• This pictorial representation will be a direct extension of the collection map you drew in presentation 3.

• What should happen to each segment of your collection map in the future. Should it be maintained? Built? Downsized? What are the discrepancies between digital and physical?

• Be sure to estimate the financial implications of each decision you make over the time period you select. 

• Show a revised budget that demonstrates where monies will be targeted to meet your goals. 

• What sources of revenue will be used to build each of the emphasis areas and the core collection?  Regular budget? A grant? A special allocation from the sponsoring organization?

The Galleries:

Posting your rough draft current collection map in our class gallery linked on the Workshop Agenda. 

A note about speaker notes on the gallery pages: 

• Do not put full speaker notes in the gallery. Just a couple of sentences will do. 

•  Submit full speaker notes when submitting final draft to Canvas.