"This course is designed to familiarize students with the theory, practice, and issues of collection development. Learning will be through lecture, group presentations, virtual discussions, evaluation of collection aids, guest speakers, and completion of a final project proposing a library collection in some detail." Three credit hours.
Upon completion of the course, students should be able to develop and maintain library collections meeting the needs of various user groups. Specific topics covered include selection and acquisition of materials in various formats, value provided by collections, types of materials, types of users, collection development policies, collection evaluation, intellectual freedom, weeding, and cooperative collection development.
Evans, G. Edward. Developing Library and Information Center Collections, 5th ed. Englewood, Colo: Libraries Unlimited. There are copies of this available through the UA bookstore. It’s ISBN number is: 1-59158-219-9, if you’d like to order it.
All students are required to:
1. Individually complete six collection development tool assessments. A handout
describing this assignment is given below. Due: Sept. 18; Oct. 9.
Value: 30%
2. Participate in a group collection evaluation assignment. A description of this assignment is given below. Due: Oct. 16
Value: 10%
3. Participate in a group presentation on an assigned topic. A handout describing this assignment is given below. Due: Sept. 25, Oct. 2, 9, 16, 30
Value: 20%
4. Individually complete an opening day collection assignment. A handout describing this assignment is given below. Due: Interim Report, Sept. 18; Final Report, Dec. 4.
Value: 40%
5. Individually read and think about an article that will be identified as the semester progresses This article will form the basis of an in-class discussion.
Please note:
· Late work will lose one letter grade from the grade it would have gotten had it been turned in on time. However, the final project, the opening day collection, will not be accepted late.
· Assignments are due at the beginning of class on the assigned due date.
· Please include your name on the first page of all your assignments.
Academic Code of Integrity
Students are expected to abide by The University of Arizona Code of Academic Integrity. 'The guiding principle of academic integrity is that a student's submitted work must be the student's own.' If you have any questions regarding what is acceptable practice under this Code, please ask an Instructor.
Accommodating Disabilities
The University has a Disability Resource Center. If you anticipate the need for reasonable accommodations to meet the requirements of this course, you must register with the Disability Resource Center and request that the DRC send me, the Instructor, official notification of your accommodation needs as soon as possible. Please plan to meet with me by appointment or during office hours to discuss accommodations and how my course requirements and activities may impact your ability to fully participate.
Assignment Policies
· Please include your name at the top of all your assignments.
Attendance and Class Participation:
Active participation is expected. Class participation will have no specific grade value. However, meaningful and active participation will contribute to a student’s final grade by increasing it slightly (for example from a high B to a low A.). Conversely, inappropriate and disruptive participation will lower a student’s final grade.
Incompletes
The 1997-8 University of Arizona General Academic Manual, p.23 reads
The grade of I may be awarded only at the end of a semester, when all but a minor portion of the course work has been satisfactorily completed. The grade of I is not to be awarded when the student is expected to repeat the course; in such a case the grade of E must be assigned. Students should make arrangements with the instructor to receive an incompete grade before the end of the semester ...
If the incomplete is not removed by the instructor within one year the I grade will revert to a failing grade.
Late work will lose one letter grade from the grade it would have gotten had it been turned in on time. However, the final project, the opening day collection, will not be accepted late.
Grading criteria:
A=90-100
B=80-89
C=70-79
D=60-69
F=59 and below
Office Phone: 520-621-5220
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