What to Collect? Building a local history reference collection at your library

Johnson, Stacey

 Marquis, Kathy & Waggener, Leslie (July 29, 2015). What To Collect?: Building a local history reference collection at your library. American Libraries Magazine.org. Retrieved from http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2015/07/29/what-to-collect/

• This article covers how to create or expand your library's local history collection. It talks about what type of materials to add and what materials not to add. It also talks about a library policy covering these items and what you might want to have spelled out in that policy.
  
  • This is an excerpt from Local History Reference Collection for Public Libraries, by Kathy Marquis and Leslie Waggener (ALA Editions, 2015).
• I found this article interesting as we have a decent size local history collection, but are always looking to expand it. The article lists different types of material that you might want to add to a collection and material types that might not work well in a library collection (but would work if you want to make an archive collection). It also talked about creating a policy for what materials will be collected and which won’t and how. I think the book would be very interesting to read.