Presentation 3

Presentation 3: Current Collection Map

Draft due Workshop 4; see Calendar for due date

Third ed. textbook chapters 8–9

Goal: Create an infographic that could hand 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. 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 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 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.

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

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.

The Galleries

INFO 266 Presentation 3 and 4 -- Gallery Hall 2016

In this gallery that has four gallery rooms or halls, we will lodge our various collection map infographics in their rough draft form on their way to the final product. In this way, we can make suggestions to others of our own type of library and watch the various maps of all types of libraries.

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. But, do submit full speaker notes to Canvas.

Posting your rough draft current collection map in our class gallery:

• Academic Libraries: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13sAXaWNPfkQ2-j9WhKE9CD8pL6RSHxBB10NriVjXGPs/edit?usp=sharing
• Public Adult: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1is-diP73zg0wuesMKVFDkKE9YyVOHVGmpCEqLUskMDE/edit?usp=sharing
• Public Library Children and Teen: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lOJW5y3ppnrJMrDC_ONdHhi5RAkAuQHOITbObFZs_4k/edit?usp=sharing
• Secondary School Library: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_u7y6GWeKwsGLunmXZdeTSYkRYBvAjjfRMFpSwTps08/edit?usp=sharing
• Elementary School: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vEWv_DQoSavbYIGy12gQFKPP7nRlCxsGh7CXLRKJOuM/edit?usp=sharing
• Special Library: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gYmtkKGRJn59OSdNkj0O8Q1y6tvu8gkzPfwRSmiM6OU/edit?usp=sharing