Presentation 5: Acquisition
Draft Due for Workshop 6, final due one week later
3rd ed. of textbook: chapters 11-18
Goal: To study the system used by your library to both acquire and connect resources and information for your patrons, and to compare the system you study with others being studied in class.
Product: A slide presentation with speaker notes.
How will you create the very highest quality collection (either through ownership or access to...)?
- Find a set of selection criteria that covers your type of library collection. What is quality?
- How are quality materials selected AND intellectual freedom principles met?
- Are there review sources and bibliographies that will help you choose the best? What about the role of patrons in choosing materials for the collection, particularly in the world of ebooks and ubiquitous digital devices?
- What about the curation of materials from your patrons that can be added to the collection?
- How might a consideration file help? What automated systems in your library help? Can these systems handle collection map targets?
- How does the business office work when you want to purchase something? What is the acquisition system for your library and how does it work? Address any current problems.
- How are acquired materials processed and made ready for patrons? Mention ways that this process might be improved.
- Reflect on the acquisition system as a whole.
- While library budgets have been cut, what efforts are being made to provide access to the best of the Web, Open Source, connections to other collections, etc.? What efforts have been made to maximize the response of the collection to satisfy the queries made of it?
- Is the acquisition system set up in a way to respond to the needs you identified back in Presentation One?
- As the last several slides of your presentation, compare the acquisition system of your library to that of other libraries of your type and then across all types of libraries.
As with Presentation One, please use either Microsoft PowerPoint or Google Slides (Presentations) for this work. In either case, you need to provide speaker notes.
Before submitting your final presentation to Canvas, create a set of speaker notes as if you were orally presenting your work. You can add the speaker notes on Canvas as a word document or text file alongside your slides (PPT file or Google URL). Your instructor will look at the slides as he listens to your speaker notes.