Saturday, February 21, 2015

Reinventing Collection Development for a Digital Age: On-Demand and On-the-Go-video

Paul Zurawski


Clark, M. (2011, September 1). Reinventing Collection Development for a Digital Age: On-Demand and On-the-Go. Retrieved February 22, 2015, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkCYdX6bGi4
Reinventing Collection Development for a Digital Age: On-Demand and On-the-Go
20 minutes long
Source: Youtube.com
Summary:
This video is about the importance of shifting collection development to meets the needs of the current day patron. The speaker discusses why libraries should allocate money towards building electronic resources and databases, as well as how to evaluate if they are effective. The video also stresses the importance of utilizing tools such as interlibrary loan to fulfill short term needs of patrons, such as getting a title that the library would not normally order, or would not see much use otherwise.
Evaluation:
All of this information is money and efficiency saving techniques that everyone looking to start or maintain a collection should know to help best run it. All of it is incredible practical and means making the most of your budget in the most effective means. It’s important to learn to learn how to follow trends regarding patrons and their needs, as well as gathering to tools they can make the most of. Librarians need to think about every tool at their disposal to make all ends meet, such as the points of using ILL for short term borrow vs buying a material that will see little use.

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