What's New in Collection Development

Johnson, Kristian 

Keeling, M. (2019). What's New in Collection Development. Knowledge Quest, 48(2). 

This short article by the president of the AASL, Mary Keeling, discusses some of the new ideas in regards to collection development. Keeling states that it is the responsibility of the school librarian to shape, manage, and promote the school library collection. Librarians should aim to improve their learning communities by facilitating  a collection that sparks ideas, problems, stories and conversations. The collection itself should not be considered separately from the community it serves and should empower learners.
I thought this piece was very clear and concise. It reads as a reminder to school librarians that they should be curating a collection that caters to its community. And that the library collection should be shaped to improve our learning communities.