School of Information and Library Science

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

 

INLS 153– Resource Selection and Evaluation

 

[Last Updated: 2006-03-01, 20:25]

Spring 2006

Meeting Time: Mondays and Wednesdays, 9:30-10:45 AM

Location: Manning 307

Credits: 3

Instructor: Cal Lee

Office: 207A Manning

Phone: 919-962-7024

E-Mail: callee [at] ils [dot] unc [dot] edu

Office Hours: Monday, 11-12; Wednesday, 10:45-11:45; or by appointment

Course Web Site: http://blackboard.unc.edu/

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This course is about the identification, provision, and evaluation of resources to meet primary needs of clientele in different institutional environments. We will explore the defining characteristics of collections; the importance of defining the scope and boundaries of collections; developing collections that are valuable to one or more identifiable communities; ensuring the sustainability of collections; and legal and ethical considerations associated with selecting, evaluating, collecting, managing and providing access to information and documentary artifacts. We will also discuss the lifecycle of information - from conception and creation to deaccessioning or long-term preservation and access.

The second part of the semester will be devoted to issues that arise with specific types of materials and collections: manuscripts, personal papers, government documents and unique collections; scholarly communications; collecting internet-accessible materials; creating internet-accessible materials (digitization); and non-textual materials. We will also consider ways in which cultural institutions can collaborate in their collecting activities and ways in which the efforts of different types of organizations (libraries, archives and museums) have begun to converge in recent years.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

• Understand current trends, and possible future directions, in the ecology of information selection and evaluation - types of materials, actors involved, models for resource allocation
• Recognize the importance of social context when developing and managing collections
• Appreciate the personal, social, ethical and legal consequences of collecting decisions
• Identify the stages of the information lifecycle and the role that you are likely to play in those stages
• Learn ways in which collections require "care and feeding" and potential approaches to ensuring the sustainability of collections
• Understand differences between the activities of different types of insitutions (special libraries, public libraries, school libraries, archives, manuscript repositories, museums)
• Learn how to evaluate and construct collection development policies
• Recognize the complexities of information selection and evaluation
• Develop a set of heuristics and principles for approaching real professional situations
• Identify places in the relevant literature where you can look for further guidance in the future

COURSE EXPECTATIONS

• Complete readings BEFORE CLASS each week. Manage your time accordingly.
  • How to Read a Book
• Written work should be of high quality. If you have concerns about writing, address them early and often.
• UNC Writing Center in Phillips Annex (two buildings east of Peabody) - http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/
• Most importantly, your peers.
• Come to class on time
• Participate in discussions – counts as 20% of your total grade for the course
• Demonstrate that you have read the material, understood and synthesized it.
• Tell us when you do not agree. This is a discussion forum, not just a lecture session. No one in the room has a monopoly on correct answers. You are encouraged to question the assumptions of the readings, your instructor and your fellow students. Your comments should reflect mutual respect and should not attack individuals, but ideas are presented in order for you to analyze and critique them.

Special Needs: If you feel that you may need an accommodation for a disability or have any other special need, please make an appointment to discuss this with me. I will best be able to address special circumstances if I know about them early in the semester. My office hours and contact information are listed at the beginning of this syllabus.

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

1. Complete required readings and participate in class discussions.
2. You will submit a paper as an individual that identifies how you will approach the collection of material in a particular area or topic. This will be due on Week 7 (Mon, February 20).
3. With a team of other students, develop a collection development policy for a specific institutional setting. The collection development policy is due on Week 12 (Wed, April 5). Your group will also be required to present a summary of your project in class during Week 14 (April 17, 19).
4. Individual paper on group project, due on Week 13 (Mon, April 10). This will include information on your individual contributions, your comments on the process, comments on the final product, and a bibliography of resources you read and consulted for the project.
5. Individual paper (5 pages maximum) on ethical case study, due on Week 8 (Wed, March 1).

KEY DATES

Week 7 (Mon, February 20) - Individual paper on collection in a particular area or topic

Week 8 (Wed, March 1) - Ethics case study paper

Week 12 (Wed, April 5) - Group collection development policy

Week 13 (Mon, April 10) - Individual paper on the group collection development policy project

Week 14 (April 17,19) - Group presentations in class

IMPORTANT NOTE ON PLAGIARISM

It is very important that you both attribute your sources and avoid excessive use of quotes (see separate handout called "In Your Own Words"). Be aware of the University of North Carolina policy on plagiarism. Your written work must be original. Ask if you have any doubts about what this means.

All cases of plagiarism (unattributed quotation or paraphrasing) of anyone else's work, whether from someone else's answers to homework or from published materials, will be officially reported and dealt with according to UNC policies (Instrument of Student Judicial Governance, Section II.B.1. and III.D.2, http://instrument.unc.edu).

EVALUATION

Participation in class discussion:             20%

Individual collecting paper :                     20%

Ethics case study paper:                            15%

Individual paper on group project:          10%

Group project:                                              35%

The most important measures of your performance in this and all other classes at SILS will be your ability to engage in challenging materials with your fellow students; your reputation for insights and professionalism among your peers and with your instructor; your integration of course material with the other things you are learning both inside and outside the classroom; and your ability to apply what you’ve learned in your future career. However, the conventions of academia dictate that I also assign labels (called grades) to your work on assignments and for the course as a whole.

Based on UNC Registrar Policy for graduate-level courses (http://regweb.unc.edu/resources/rpm24.php), both assignment and semester grades will be H, P, L or F. Few students will obtain an "H," which signifies an exceptionally high level of performance (higher than an "A" in an A-F systems). The following is a more detailed breakdown:

H = Superior work: complete command of subject, unusual depth, great creativity or originality
P+ = Above average performance: solid work somewhat beyond what was required and good
command of the material
P = Satisfactory performance that meets course requirements (expected to be the median grade of
all students in the course).
P- = Acceptable work in need of improvement
L = Unacceptable graduate performance: substandard in significant ways
F = Performance that is seriously deficient and unworthy of graduate credit

COURSE READINGS

The text for the course is available for purchase from the UNC Student Stores in the Daniels Building (two buildings south of Manning):

Evans, G. Edward, and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro. Developing Library and Information Center Collections. Fifth Edition, Library and Information Science Text Series. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.

Electronic Reserves: Some readings for the course may be available through the UNC Libraries electronic reserves system: http://eres.lib.unc.edu/courseindex.asp

SILS Reserves: Copies of the following books are available from the SILS Library on the first floor of Manning Hall (behind the SILS Library help desk):

Anderson, Joanne S., Chris Desjariais-Leuth, Maureen Gleason, Caroline C. Long, Marilyn Myers, Mary Ellen Quinn, and Kathleen A. Sullivan. Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements. Second Edition. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1996.

 

Evans, G. Edward, and Margaret Zarnosky Saponaro. Developing Library and Information Center Collections. Fifth Edition ed, Library and Information Science Text Series. Westport, CT: Libraries Unlimited, 2005.

 

Fales, Susan L., ed. Guide for Training Collection Development Librarians. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1996.

World Wide Web: Some class preparation requires review of information on the Web. Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) are provided with the reading assignments.

The following labels indicate where specific course readings can be located:

B = Book for purchase

R = Electronic reserves through UNC Libraries (http://eres.lib.unc.edu/eres/)

S = Reserves at SILS Library in Manning Hall

C = Course site on Blackboard (https://blackboard.unc.edu/), where some electronic version of publications will be available

O = Online through UNC license. NOTE: Accessing these materials usually will require you either to use a computer with a UNC IP address (generally, a SILS or UNC Library computer) or visit the associated sites through a UNC proxy server. See: http://proxy.lib.unc.edu/setupinfo.html

W = Publicly accessible Web

Part 1 - Principles and Foundations

Week 1 (January 11) – No Class

January 16 is Martin Luther King Day - No Class

Week 2 (January 18) – Introduction to the Course

• Scope and structure of the class
• Expectations and assignments
• Current information landscape

Required:

B – Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 1: Information Age – Information Society, p.1-19.

Week 3 (January 23, 25) – What are collections? What are their limits?

• Information Professionals Generally Manage Collections, Not Discrete Facts
• Collections must be Bounded
• Collection Policies

Required:

C - Anderson, Joanne S., Chris Desjariais-Leuth, Maureen Gleason, Caroline C. Long, Marilyn Myers, Mary Ellen Quinn, and Kathleen A. Sullivan. Guide for Written Collection Policy Statements. Second Edition. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 1996.

B – Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 3: Collection Development Policies, p.49-68.

W - Kastens, Kim, Barbara DeFelice, Holly Devaul, Christopher DiLeonardo, Kathryn Ginger, Suzanne Larsen, David Mogk, and Sharon Tahirkheli. "Questions & Challenges Arising in Building the Collection of a Digital Library for Education: Lessons from Five Years of DLESE." D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 11 (2005). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november05/kastens/11kastens.html

C - Lee, Hur-Li. "What Is a Collection?" Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51, no. 12 (2000): 1106-13.

Other Related Readings:

Clayton, Peter, and G. E. Gorman. "Updating Conspectus for a Digital Age." Library Collections, Acquisitions, and Technical Services 26, no. 3 (2002): 253-58.

C - Coleman, Sterling. "The Archival and Library Viewpoints of a Collection in a Digital Environment: Is There Any Room for Compromise?" Journal of Archival Organization 2, no. 1/2 (2004): 103-15.

C - Currall, James, Michael Moss, and Susan Stuart. "What Is a Collection?" Archivaria 58 (2004): 131-46.

Ericson, Timothy L. "At the 'Rim of Creative Dissatisfaction': Archivists and Acquisition Development." Archivaria 33 (1991-1992): 66-77.

Spohrer, James H. "The End of an American (Library) Dream: The Rise and Decline of the Collection Development Policy Statement at Berkeley." Acquisitions Librarian 15, no. 30 (2003): 33-47.

Week 4 (January 30, February 1) – Collections Must be Valuable to Someone

• Identifying and understanding relevant communities
• Needs assessments
• Valuation of information
• Evaluation of existing collections
• Use statistics as one measure of value

Required:

O - Bertot, John Carlo, Charles R. McClure, Denise M. Davis, and Joe Ryan. "Capture Usage with E-Metrics." Library Journal 129, no. 8 (2004): 30-32. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=638849371&sid=1&Fmt=4&clientId=15094&RQT=309&VName=PQD

C - Bosch, Stephen, Lucy Lyons, Mary H. Munroe, Anna H. Perrault, and Chris Sugnet. "Measuring Success of Cooperative Collection Development: Report of the Center for Research Libraries / Greater Western Library Alliance Working Group for Quantitative Evaluation of Cooperative Collection Development Projects." Collection Management 28, no. 3 (2003): 223-39.

W - Counting Online Usage of Networked Electronic Resources (COUNTER) Project. http://projectcounter.org/ [Read the About Page in its entirety; familiarize yourself with Release 2 of the COUNTER code of Practice for Journals and Databases (Published April 2005) and Draft Release 1 of the COUNTER Code of Practice for Books and Reference Works (Published for comments in January 2005)]

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 2: Information Needs Assessment, p.20-48, Chapter 14: Evaluation, p.314-338..

Other Related Readings:

O - Barnes, Stuart J. "Assessing the Value of IS Journals." Communications of the ACM 48, no. 1 (2005): 110-12. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1039539.1039573

Bishop, Ann Peterson, Nancy A. Van House, and Barbara P. Buttenfield, eds. Digital Library Use: Social Practice in Design and Evaluation, Digital Libraries and Electronic Publishing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.

Bland, Rose L., and Allison M. Howard. "Library Statistics and Outcomes Assessment." In Building a Virtual Library, edited by Ardis Hanson and Bruce Lubotsky Levin, 194-211. Hershey, PA : Information Science Publishing, 2003.

O - Coombs, Karen A. "Lessons Learned from Analyzing Library Database Usage Data." Library Hi Tech 23, no. 4 (2005): 598-609. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/07378830510636373

W - Developing Archival Metrics in College and University Archives and Special Collections. http://www.si.umich.edu/ArchivalMetrics/

Durrance, Joan C., and Karen E. Fisher. How Libraries and Librarians Help: A Guide to Identifying User-Centered Outcomes. Chicago, IL: American Library Association, 2005.

C - Fisher, Karen E., Joan C. Durrance, and Marian Bouch Hinton. "Information Grounds and the Use of Need-Based Services by Immigrants in Queens, New York: A Context-Based, Outcome Evaluation Approach." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 55, no. 8 (2004): 754-66.

Kraemer, Alfred. "Ensuring Consistent Usage Statistics: Part 2: Working with Use Data for Electronic Journals." The Serials Librarian 50, no. 1/2 (2006): 179-96.

O - Larsen, Kai R. T., and Peter A. Bloniarz. "A Cost and Performance Model for Web Service Investment." Communications of the ACM 43, no. 2 (2000): 109-16. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/328236.328113

O - McClure, Charles R. "Strategies for Collecting Networked Statistics: Practical Suggestions." VINE 34, no. 4 (2004). http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=774545451&sid=1&Fmt=3&clientId=15094&RQT=309&VName=PQD

C - Marchionini, Gary. "Evaluating Digital Libraries: A Longitutidinal and Multifaceted View." Library Trends 49, no. 2 (2000): 304-33.

Meta Scholar: User Quality Metrics. http://metascholar.org/quality_metrics/

Pesch, Oliver. "Ensuring Consistent Usage Statistics: Part 1: Project Counter." The Serials Librarian 50, no. 1/2 (2006): 147-61.

C - Seadle, Michael. "Project Ethnography: An Anthropological Approach to Assessing Digital Library Services." Library Trends 49, no. 2 (2000): 370-85.

W - Standard Usage Statistics Harvesting Initiative (SUSHI). http://www.library.cornell.edu/cts/elicensestudy/ermi2/sushi/

O - Town, Stephen. "E-Measures: A Comprehensive Waste of Time?" VINE 34, no. 4 (2004): 190-95. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=774545691&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=15094&RQT=309&VName=PQD

O - Welch, Jeanie M. "Who Says We're Not Busy? Library Web Page Usage as a Measure of Public Service Activity." Reference Services Review 33, no. 4 (2005): 371-79. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/00907320510631526

C - Yeo, Geoffrey. "Understanding Users and Use: A Market Segmentation Approach." Journal of the Society of Archivists 26, no. 1 (2005): 25-53.

Other Related Readings:

W - National Science Digital Library (NSDL) Evaluation: Online Resources - http://eval.comm.nsdl.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OnlineDocs

Week 5 (February 6,8) – Information Life Cycle and Workflow (First of Two Weeks)

• Concept of the lifecycle and its stages
• Producers and production
• Selection process
• Acquisitions process

Required:

B - Evans and Saponaro, Figure 1.1 on p.7; Chapter 5: Producers of Information Materials, p.99-119; Chapter 11: Distributors and Vendors, p.248-276; Chapter 4: Selection Process in Practice, p.69-98; Chapter 10: Acquisitions, p.229-247.

Other Related Readings:

W - Bearman, David, and Jennifer Trant. "Unifying Our Cultural Memory: Could Electronic Environments Bridge the Historical Accidents That Fragment Cultural Collections?" Paper presented at the Information landscapes for a learning society: networking and the future of libraries 3, University of Bath, June 29 - July 1 1998. http://www.archimuse.com/papers/ukoln98paper/index.html See specifically "Social Barriers: The Humanities Research Process" http://www.archimuse.com/papers/ukoln98paper/section6.html#social

Fenner, Audrey. "The Approval Plan: Selection Aid, Selection Substitute." Acquisitions Librarian 16, no. 31/32 (2004): 227-40.

W - Lavoie, Brian F. "The Open Archival Information System Reference Model: Introductory Guide." OCLC Online Computer Library Center and Digital Preservation Coalition, 2004. http://www.dpconline.org/docs/lavoie_OAIS.pdf

W - Producer-Archive Interface Methodology Abstract Standard. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. December 2003. http://www.ccsds.org/CCSDS/documents/651x0b1.pdf

W - Shirky, Clay. "AIHT: Conceptual Issues from Practical Tests." D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 12 (2005). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december05/shirky/12shirky.html

Week 6 (February 13,15) – Information Life Cycle and Workflow (Second of Two Weeks)

• Integrating collection development into other systems and practices
• Providing access
• End of the life cycle – deaccessioning

Required:

C - Calanag, Maria Luisa, Koichi Tabata, and Shigeo Sugimoto. "Linking Preservation Metadata and Collection Management Policies." Collection Building 23, no. 2 (2004): 56-63.

C - Daniels-Howell, Todd. "Reappraisal of Congressional Papers at the Minnesota Historical Society: A Case Study." Archival Issues 23 (1998): 35-40.

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 13: Deselection, p.295-313.

C - Rapport, Leonard. "No Grandfather Clause: Reappraising Accessioned Records." American Archivist 44 (1981): 143-50.

Other Related Readings:

C - Benedict, Karen. "Invitation to a Bonfire: Reappraisal and Deaccessioning of Records as Collection Management Tools in an Archives--a Reply to Leonard Rapport." American Archivist 47 (1984): 43-49.

O - Carey, Ronadin, Stephen Elfstrand, and Renee Hijleh. "An Evidence-Based Approach for Gaining Faculty Acceptance in a Serials Cancellation Project." Collection Management 30, no. 2 (2005): 59-73.

W - "Cedars Guide to Digital Collection Management." CEDARS Project, 2002. http://www.leeds.ac.uk/cedars/guideto/collmanagement/guidetocolman.pdf

O - Foudy, Gerri, and Alesia McManus. "Using a Decision Grid Process to Build Consensus in Electronic Resources Cancellation Decisions." Journal of Academic Librarianship 31, no. 6 (2005): 533-38. http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?recid=0bc05f7a67b1790e06bc114cd79d5996ca3195bf50ff5c2c148f8d0345d576367330ade573499328&fmt=P

C - Perrault, Anna H. "The Role of WorldCat in Resources Sharing." Collection Management 28, no. 1/2 (2003): 63-75.

Ross, Catherine Sheldrick. "Making Choices: What Readers Say About Choosing Books to Read for Pleasure." Acquisitions Librarian (2001): 5-21.

Week 7 (February 20,22) – Sustainability of Collections

• Different types of organizations and institutional arrangements
• Consideration of preservation and conservation as cost factors
• Resource flows
• Business models for ensuring sustainability
• Restrictions on financial resources
• Restrictions on deaccessioning and sale of holdings

Required:

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 12: Fiscal Management, p.277-294; Chapter 16: Protecting the Collection, p.357-383.

C - Guthrie, Kevin. The New York Historical Society: Lessons From One Nonprofit's Long Struggle to Survive. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1996: Chapter 1, "Crisis in the Headlines," 3-8; Chapter 2, "The Formative Years, 1804-1920," 9-20; Chapter 8, "Facing Tough Choices Today," 134-148; and, Chapter 9, "The Liabilities of Nonprofit Assets," 151-158; Appendix D, "1959 Library Acquisitions Policy," 213-28.

W - Janes, Joe. "Why is the IPL Broke?" American Libraries Online, March 2003. http://www.ala.org/al_onlineTemplate.cfm?Section=2003_columns1&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=19076

W - Kenney, Anne R. "Collections, Preservation, and the Changing Resource Base." In Access in the Future Tense, 24-33. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub126/kenney.html

Other Related Readings:

W - Bishoff, Liz, and Nancy Allen. "Business Planning for Cultural Heritage Institutions." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub124abst.html

W - "Building and Sustaining Digital Collections: Models for Libraries and Museums." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub100abst.html

W - "Current Library Practices in Collection Development and Preservation." In The Evidence in Hand: The Report of the Task Force on the Artifact in Library Collections. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub103/appendix1.html

C - Johns, Cecily. "Collection Management Strategies in a Digital Environment." Collection Management 28, no. 1/2 (2003): 37-43.

Kalyan, Sulekha. "Library Materials Budget Allocation Strategy for a Mid-Size Academic Library: A Case Study." Acquisitions Librarian 15, no. 29 (2003): 119-31.

W - Zorich, Diane M. "A Survey of Digital Cultural Heritage Initiatives and Their Sustainability Concerns." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub118abst.html

Week 8 (February 27, March 1) – Legal and Ethical Considerations

• Censorship
• Intellectual property (including inter-library loan, fair use, first sale doctrine, document delivery and library deposit arrangements)
• Cultural property
• Confidentiality
• Public access

Required for Monday (February 27):

W - AALL Ethical Principles. American Assocation for Law Libraries. http://www.aallnet.org/about/policy_ethics.asp

W - Code of Ethics. American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/codeofethics/codeethics.htm

W - Code of Ethics for Archivists. Society of American Archivists. http://www.archivists.org/governance/handbook/app_ethics.asp

W - Code of Ethics for Health Sciences Librarianship. Medical Library Association. http://www.mlanet.org/about/ethics.html

W - Diversity in Collection Development. American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/Template.cfm?Section=interpretations&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=8530

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 17: Legal Issues, p.384-409; Chapter 18: Censorship, Intellectual Freedom, and Collection Development, p.410-429.

W - Library Bill of Rights. American Library Association. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.htm

W - SLA Vision, Mission and Core Value Statements. Special Libraries Association. http://www.sla.org/content/SLA/AssnProfile/slanplan/index.cfm

W - Standards for Ethical Conduct for Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Librarians, with Guidelines for Institutional Practice in Support of the Standards, 2d edition, 1992. Association of Colleges and Research Libraries (ACRL), Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS). http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/standardsethical.htm

O - Warren, Karen J. "A Philosophical Perspective on the Ethics and Resolution of Cultural Property Issues." In The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property: Whose Culture? Whose Property? edited by Phyllis Mauch Messenger, 1-25. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1989. http://eresources.lib.unc.edu/cgi-bin/splash.cgi?URL=http://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=22876

Other Related Readings:

Chou, Min, and Oliver Zhou. "The Impact of Licenses on Library Collections." Acquisitions Librarian 17, no. 33/34 (2005): 7-23.

W - Kahle, Brewster, Rick Prelinger, and Mary E. Jackson. "Public Access to Digital Material." D-Lib Magazine 7, no. 10 (2001). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/october01/kahle/10kahle.html

Mason, Philip P. "The Ethics of Collecting." Georgia Archives (1977): 36-50.

O - Muir, Adrienne. "Legal Deposit of Digital Publications: A Review of Research and Development Activity." Paper presented at the ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL), Roanoke, Virginia, June 24-28 2001. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/379437.379475

W - "Report on Orphan Works." Washington, DC: U.S. Copyright Office, 2006. http://www.copyright.gov/orphan/

Shipe, Timothy. "Travels into Several Remote Corners of the Information Universe: A Voyage to the Department of the Houyhnhnmists, or, Licensing Issues and the Integrated Collection." Acquisitions Librarian 17, no. 33/34 (2005): 25-34.

Required for Discussion and Ethics Case Study Paper Due on Wednesday (March 1):

W - Butter, Karen, Robin Chandler, and John Kunze. "The Cigarette Papers: Issues in Publishing Materials in Multiple Formats." D-Lib Magazine 2, no. 10 (1996). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/november96/11butter.html

C - Chandler, Robin D. and Susan Storch."Lighting Up the Internet: The Brown and Williamson Collection." In Archives and the Public Good: Accountability and Records in Modern Society, Edited by Richard J. Cox and David A. Wallace, 135-162. Westport Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 2002.

W - Legacy Tobacco Documents Library. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/ [Spend some time exploring this collection and getting a sense of what sorts of materials are in it. You can then restrict your search to the Brown and Williamson materials.]

Other Related Documents for Wednesday (March 1):

W - Schmidt, Heidi, Karen Butter, and Cynthia Rider. "Building Digital Tobacco Industry Document Libraries at the University of California, San Francisco Library/Center for Knowledge Management." D-Lib Magazine 8, no. 9 (2002). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september02/schmidt/09schmidt.html

Part 2 - Specific Types of Materials and Types of Collections

Week 9 (March 6, 8) – Manuscripts, Personal Papers, Government Documents and Unique Collections

Required:

W - Beagrie, Neil. "Plenty of Room at the Bottom? Personal Digital Libraries and Collections." D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 6 (2005). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/beagrie/06beagrie.html

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 8: Government Information, p.180-201.

C - Peterson, Elizabeth. "Collection Development in California Indian Tribal Libraries." Collection Building 23, no. 3 (2004): 129-32.

C - Phillips, Faye. "Developing Collecting Policies for Manuscript Collections." American Archivist 47, no. 1 (1984): 30-42.

Other Related Readings:

C - Endelman, Judith E. "Looking Backward to Plan for the Future: Collection Analysis for Manuscript Repositories." American Archivist 50 (1987): 340-55.

W - Goverment Printing Office (GPO) LOCKSS Pilot Project. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/lockss/

SPRING BREAK (March 13, 15) - NO CLASS

Week 10 (March 20, 22) – Scholarly Communications

• Serials
• Institutional repositories
• Open access initiatives
• Course materials

Required:

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 6: Serials – Print and Electronic, p.120-152.

C - Heath, Fred M., and Jocelyn Duffy. "Collections of Record and Scholarly Communications: The Responsibilities of the Research Library in a Rapidly Evolving Digital World." Journal of Library Administration 42, no. 2 (2005): 5-21.

W - Lynch, Clifford A. "Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age." ARL Bimonthly Report 226 (2003): 1-7. http://www.arl.org/newsltr/226/ir.html

W - Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). http://www.ndltd.org/ [Read the History, Description and Scope of the NDLTD Initiative and familiarize yourself with the site]

W - OpenCourseWare. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. http://ocw.mit.edu/index.html [Visit the site and peruse some course materials related to a topic that interests you.]

W - Portico. http://www.portico.org/ [Read all pages within the following sections: About Portico, Service for Publishers, Service for Libraries]

Other Related Readings:

C - Chang, Sheau-Hwang. "Institutional Repositories: The Library's New Role." OCLC Systems & Services 19, no. 3 (2003): 77-79.

W - GreyNet - Grey Literature Network Service. http://www.greynet.org/

W - Hahn, Karla. "The State of the Large Publisher Bundle: Findings from an Arl Member Survey." ARL Bimonthly Report 245 (2006). http://www.arl.org/newsltr/245/bundle.html

Hixson, Carol. "If We Build It, Will They Come (Eventually)? Scholarly Communication and Institutional Repositories." The Serials Librarian 50, no. 1/2 (2006): 197-209.

C - Kling, Rob, and Geoffrey McKim. "Scholarly Communication and the Continuum of Electronic Publishing." Journal of the American Society for Information Science 50, no. 9 (1999): 890-906.

W - North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG). http://www.nasig.org/

Schoen, Dena, Julia Gammon, Zac Rolnik, Bob Schatz, Elizabeth Lowe, and Donna Packer. "Serials Industry: Truth or Dare." The Serials Librarian 50, no. 1/2 (2006): 137-45.

W - Schonfeld, Roger C., Donald W. King, Ann Okerson, and Eileen Gifford Fenton. "The Nonsubscription Side of Periodicals: Changes in Library Operations and Costs between Print and Electronic Formats." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub127abst.html

Skekel, Donna. "The Method Behind the Madness: Acquiring Online Journals and a Solution to Provide Access." Acquisitions Librarian 17, no. 33/34 (2005): 63-71.

W - Smith, Abby. "New-Model Scholarship: How Will It Survive?" Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub114abst.html

W - Urgent Action Needed to Preserve Scholarly Electronic Journals. Association of Research Libraries. http://www.arl.org/osc/EjournalPreservation_Final.pdf

Waller, Andrew, and Gwen Bird. "“We Own It”: Dealing with Perpetual Access in Big Deals." The Serials Librarian 50, no. 1/2 (2006): 179-96.

Week 11 (March 27, 29) – Collecting Internet-Accessible Materials

• Public Web Materials
• Commercial Online Sources

Required:

W - Cutts, Matt. "How Does Google Determine Which Web Sites Are the Most "Trusted"?" Google Newsletter for Librarians, January 2006. http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/article3.html

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 7: Other Electronic Materials, p.153-179.

W - Lyman, Peter. "Archiving the World Wide Web." In Building a National Strategy for Digital Preservation: Issues in Digital Media Archiving, 38-51. Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources and Library of Congress, 2002. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub106/web.html

W - Masanès, Julien. "Towards Continuous Web Archiving: First Results and an Agenda for the Future." D-Lib Magazine 8, no. 12 (2002). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december02/masanes/12masanes.html

W - Schneider, Karen G. "Beyond Algorithms: A Librarian's Guide to Finding Web Sites You Can Trust." Google Newsletter for Librarians, January 2006. http://www.google.com/newsletter/librarian/librarian_2006_01/article2.html

Other Related Readings:

W - 2004 Presidential Term Web Harvest. National Archives and Records Administration. http://webharvest.gov/

W - Andersen, Bjarne. "The DKdomain: In Words and Figures." 2006. http://netarkivet.dk/publikationer/DFrevy_english.pdf

W - Arms, William Y., Roger Adkins, Cassy Ammen, and Allene Hayes. "Collecting and Preserving the Web: The Minerva Prototype." RLG DigiNews 5, no. 2 (2001). http://www.rlg.org/preserv/diginews/diginews5-2.html#feature1

W - Aschenbrenner, Andreas. http://www.ifs.tuwien.ac.at/%7eaola/links/WebArchiving.html [Very useful, but not updated since 2004]

W - Bailey, Steve, and Dave Thompson. "UKWAC: Building the UK's First Public Web Archive." D-Lib Magazine 12, no. 1 (2006). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/thompson/01thompson.html

C - Bainbridge, David, John Thompson, and Ian H. Witten. "Assembling and Enriching Digital Library Collections." Paper presented at the Third ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries (JCDL), Houston, Texas, May 27-31, 2003.

W - Berthon, Hilary, Susan Thomas, and Colin Webb. "Safekeeping: A Cooperative Approach to Building a Digital Preservation Resource." D-Lib Magazine 8 (2002). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january02/berthon/01berthon.html

W - "Collection Policy." Digital Archive for Chinese Studies (DACHS). http://www.sino.uni-heidelberg.de/dachs/intro.htm#collect

O - Congleton, Robert J. "Evaluating Web Sites Featuring Primary Sources on United States History." Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian 24, no. 1 (2005): 61-82. http://www.haworthpress.com/store/E-Text/View_EText.asp?sid=8AAM21Q55HBR9JR14F4ST11SUC500439&a=3&s=J103&v=24&i=1&fn=J103v24n01%5F04

W - Day, Michael. "Collecting and Preserving the World Wide Web: A Feasibility Study Undertaken for the JISC and Wellcome Trust." Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Wellcome Trust, 2003. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/archiving_feasibility.pdf

Hiott, Judith, and Carla Beasley. "Electronic Collection Management: Completing the Cycle–Experiences at Two Libraries." Acquisitions Librarian 17, no. 33/34 (2005): 159-78.

W - International Internet Preservation Consortium. http://www.netpreserve.org/

W - Jewell, Timothy D. "Selection and Presentation of Commercially Available Electronic Resources: Issues and Practices." Washington , DC : Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub99abst.html

W - Koerbin, Paul. "Report on the Crawl and Harvest of the Whole Australian Web Domain Undertaken During June and July 2005." National Library of Australia, 2005. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/documents/domain_harvest_report_public.pdf

Kovacs, Diane K., and Kara L. Robinson. “General Collection Development Principles for Web-Accessible Resources.” And “Licensing Basics.” In. The Kovacs Guide to Electronic Library Collection Development: Essential Core Subject Collections, Selection Criteria, and Guidelines , 3-44, 67-75. New York, NY: Neal-Schuman, 2004. Also Part 2: Recommended Evaluation Guidelines, Selection Criteria, and Core Collections for Major Subject Areas.

W - Marill, Jennifer, Andrew Boyko, and Michael Ashenfelder. "Web Harvesting Survey." International Internet Preservation Coalition, 2004. http://www.netpreserve.org/publications/iipc-r-001.pdf

W - MINERVA (Mapping the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive). http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/minerva/

W - Our Digital Island: A Tasmanian Web Archive. State Library of Tasmania. http://odi.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/

W - PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia). National Library of Australia. http://pandora.nla.gov.au/

O - Phillips, Margaret E. "What Should We Preserve? The Question for Heritage Libraries in a Digital World." Library Trends 54, no. 1 (2005): 57-71. http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&an=19601006

W - Pitschmann, Louis A. "Building Sustainable Collections of Free Third-Party Web Resources." Washington, DC : Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. http://www.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm

W - Reilly, Bernard, Carolyn Palaima, Kent Norsworthy, Leslie Myrick, Gretchen Tuchel, and James Simon. "Political Communications Web Archiving: Addressing Typology and Timing for Selection, Preservation and Access." Paper presented at the Third ECDL Workshop on Web Archives, Trondheim, Norway, August 21, 2003. http://bibnum.bnf.fr/ecdl/2003/proceedings.php?f=reilly

W - Safekeeping. Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) and Preserving Access to Digital Information (PADI). http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/safekeeping/safekeeping.html [See specifically the Selection Criteria for Safekeeping]

W - Stanford Guidelines for Web Credibility. http://www.webcredibility.org/guidelines/

W - UK Web Archiving Consortium. http://www.webarchive.org.uk/

Week 12 (April 3, 5) – Creating More Internet-Accessible Materials – Digitization

• Selection for digitization
• Technical and institutional considerations
• Recent digitization initiatives

Required:

W - Agnew, Grace, Liz Bishoff, Priscilla Caplan, Rebecca Guenther, Ingrid Hsieh-Yee, Amy Alderfer, and Jen Childree. "A Framework of Guidance for Building Good Digital Collections. 2nd Edition." Bethesda, MD: National Information Standards Organization, 2004. http://www.niso.org/framework/framework2.pdf

W - Billington, James H. "Proposal for a World Digital Library." Presented to the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO. Georgetown University. June 6, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/about/welcome/speeches/wdl/wdl_6-6-05.html

W - Hazen, Dan, Jeffrey Horrell, and Jan Merrill-Oldham. "Selecting Research Collections for Digitization." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 1998. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/hazen/pub74.html

W - Library Project – An enhanced card catalog of the world's books. Google. http://books.google.com/googlebooks/common.html

W - Open Content Alliance http://www.opencontentalliance.org/ [Read the Frequently Asked Questions page and Next Steps. Note that UNC and SILS are contributors to this effort.]

Other Related Readings:

W - Aluka - " not-for-profit initiative partnering with key libraries, museums, and archives around the globe to build a sustainable digital library of curated collections from and about the developing world, focusing, to begin with, on Africa" - http://www.ithaka.org/aluka/

O - Antonacopoulos, A., D. Karatzas, H. Krawczyk, and B. Wiszniewski. "The Lifecycle of a Digital Historical Document: Structure and Content." Paper presented at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, October 28-30, 2004. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1030397.1030427

W - Covey, Denise Troll. "Acquiring Copyright Permission to Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub134abst.html

Kenney, Anne R., and Oya Y. Reiger, eds. Moving Theory into Practice: Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives. Mountain View, California: Research Libraries Group, 2000.

W - Linden, Julie, and Ann Green. "Don't Leave the Data in the Dark: Issues in Digitizing Print Statistical Publications." D-Lib Magazine 12, no. 1 (2006). http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january06/linden/01linden.html

W - NINCH Working Group on Best Practices. "The Ninch Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials." Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), University of Glasgow, and the National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage (NINCH), 2002. http://www.nyu.edu/its/humanities/ninchguide/

W - Smith, Abby. "Strategies for Building Digitized Collections." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2001. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub101abst.html

W - Text Creation Partnership. http://www.lib.umich.edu/tcp/

W - Wisser, Katherine M., ed. "Selection." In Guidelines for Digitization. North Carolina Exploring Cultural Heritage Online (NC ECHO). http://www.ncecho.org/Guide/selection.htm

O - Yacoub, Sherif, John Burns, Paolo Faraboschi, Daniel Ortega, Jose Abad Peiro, and Vinay Saxena. "Document Digitization Lifecycle for Complex Magazine Collection." Paper presented at the ACM Symposium on Document Engineering, Bristol, United Kingdom, November 2-4, 2005. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1096601.1096650

Week 13 (April 10, 12) – Non-Textual Materials and Bringing it Together

• Convergence and commonalities across professions
• Inter-institutional strategies

Required For Monday (April 10):

W - Esanu, Julie, Joy Davidson, Seamus Ross, and William L. Anderson. "Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Digital Scientific Data: Highlights of an ERPANET/CODATA Workshop." Data Science Journal 3 (2004): 227-32. http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/codata/Journal/contents/3_04/3_04pdfs/DS390.pdf

B - Evans and Saponaro, Chapter 9: Audiovisual Materials, p.202-228.

Other Related Readings For Monday (April 10):

W - Besek, June M. "Copyright Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Pre-1972 Commercial Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub135abst.html

W - Brooks, Tim. "Survey of Reissues of U.S. Recordings." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2005. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub133abst.html

W - Gutmann, Myron P., Kevin Schürer, Darrell Donakowski, and Hilary Beedham. "The Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Social Science Data." Data Science Journal 3 (2004): 209-21. http://journals.eecs.qub.ac.uk/codata/Journal/contents/3_04/3_04pdfs/DS386.pdf

Laskowski, Mary S. "Stop the Technology, I Want to Get Off: Tips and Tricks for Media Selection and Acquisition." Acquisitions Librarian 16, no. 31/32 (2004): 217-25.

Lorenzen, Elizabeth A. "Selecting and Acquiring Art Materials in the Academic Library: Meeting the Needs of the Studio Artist." Acquisitions Librarian 16, no. 31/32 (2004): 27-39.

Luttmann, Stephen. "Selection of Music Materials." Acquisitions Librarian 16, no. 31/32 (2004): 11-25.

W - "The Selection, Appraisal, and Retention of Digital Scientific Data." ERPANET/CODATA Workshop Final Report. 2004. http://www.erpanet.org/events/2003/lisbon/LisbonReportFinal.pdf

W - Smith, Abby, David Randal Allen, and Karen Allen. "Survey of the State of Audio Collections in Academic Libraries." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2004. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub128abst.html

W - Ubois, Jeff. "New Approaches to Television Archiving." First Monday 10, no. 3 (2005). http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_3/ubois/index.html

Required for Wednesday (April 12):

B - Evans and Saporano, Chapter 15: Resource Sharing, p.339-356.

C - Hedstrom, Margaret, and John Leslie King. "Epistemic Infrastructure in the Rise of the Knowledge Economy." In Advancing Knowledge and the Knowledge Economy, edited by Brian Kahin and Dominique Foray. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, forthcoming.

W - Reilly, Bernard F., Jr., and Barbara DesRosiers. "Developing Print Repositories: Models for Shared Preservation and Access." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003. http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub117/pub117.pdf

C - Samuels, Helen Willa. "Who Controls the Past: Documentation Strategies Used to Select What Is Preserved." American Archivist 49 (1986): 109-24.

Other Related Readings for Wednesday (April 12):

C - Abraham, Terry. "Collection Policy or Documentation Strategy." American Archivist 54 (1991): 44-52.

W - AIP Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase I: High-Energy Physics. New York, NY: American Institute of Physics, 1992. http://www.aip.org/history/pubs/collabs/hephome.htm

W - AIP Study of Multi-Institutional Collaborations. Phase II: Space Science & Geophysics. College Park, MD: American Institute of Physics, 1995. http://www.aip.org/history/pubs/collabs/ssghome.htm

C - "Archive Interoperability." In Reference Model for an Open Archival Information System, 6-1 to 6-9. Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems. 2002.

C - Cox, Richard J. "The Archival Documentation Strategy and Its Implications for the Appraisal of Architectural Records." American Archivist 59 (1996): 144-54.

Cox, Richard J . "The Archival Documentation Strategy: A Brief Intellectual History, 1984-1994 and Practical Description." Janus 2 (1995): 76-93.

Cox, Richard J. Documenting Localities: A Practical Model for American Archivists and Manuscript Curators. Lanham , MD: Scarecrow Press, 1996.

Cox, Richard J. "The Documentation Strategy and Archival Appraisal Principles: A Different Perspective." Archivaria 38 (1994): 11-36.

Ericson, Timothy L. "To Approximate June Pasture: The Documentation Strategy in the Real World." Archival Issues 22, no. 1 (1997): 5-20.

C - Gammon, Julia A., and Michael Zeoli. "Practical Cooperative Collecting for Consortia: Books-Not-Bought in Ohio." Collection Management 28, no. 1/2 (2003): 77-105.

Hackman, Larry, and Joan Warnow-Blewett. "The Documentation Strategy Process: A Model and a Case Study." American Archivist 50 (1987): 12-47.

W - Luther, Judy, Linda Bills, Amy McColl, Norm Medeiros, Amy Morrison, Eric Pumroy, and Peggy Seiden. "Library Buildings and the Building of a Collaborative Research Collection at the Tri-College Library Consortium." Washington, DC: Council on Library and Information Resources, 2003. http://www.clir.org/pubs/abstract/pub115abst.html

Marshall, Jennifer A. "Documentation Strategies in the Twenty-First Century? Rethinking Institutional Priorities and Professional Limitations." Archival Issues 23, no. 1 (1998): 59-74.

W - MetaArchive Project. http://www.metaarchive.org

S - Rayward, W. Boyd. "Electronic Information and the Functional Integration of Libraries, Museums, and Archives." In History and Electronic Artefacts, edited by Edward Higgs, 207-25. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998.

C - Reilly, Bernard F., Jr. "The Case for Belts and Suspenders: Risk Management Aspects of Cooperative Collection Development." Collection Management 28, no. 1/2 (2003): 121-34.

C - Shelton, Cynthia. "Best Practices in Cooperative Collection Development: A Report Prepared by the Center for Research Libraries Working Group on Best Practices in Cooperative Collection Development." Collection Management 28, no. 3 (2003): 191-222.

W - Yakel, Elizabeth. "Choices and Challenges: Cross-Cutting Themes in Archives and Museums." OCLC Systems & Services 21, no. 1 (2005): 13-17. http://www.emeraldinsight.com/10.1108/10650750510578091

Week 14 (April 17, 19) - Presentations and Discussions about Group Projects

Week 15 (April 24, 26) – Wrapping Up – Conclusions, Observations and Future Directions

• Reflections on group projects
• What's next in selection and evaluation of information resources?
• What's next for you professionally?

Journals Related to Themes in this Course:

• Acquisitions Librarian
• Collection Building
• Collection Development
• Library Collections, Acquisitions, & Technical Services

Web Sites Devoted to Collection Development and Acquisitions Issues:

AcqWeb - http://acqweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/

Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Collections Program - http://www.arl.org/collect/

Some Other Resources You Might Find Interesting or Useful:

Antelman, Kristin, and David Langenberg. "Collection Development in the Electronic Library." Paper presented at the 21st annual ACM SIGUCCS conference on User services, San Diego , CA 1993. [An early piece on the issues associated with collection development in a networked electronic environment.]

Lee, Stuart D., and Frances Boyle. Building an Electronic Resource Collection: A Practical Guide. Second ed. London: FACET, 2004.

W - NSDL Collection Development Weblog. http://colldev.gforge.nsdlib.org/

Pettijohn, Patricia, and Tina Neville. "Collection Development for Virtual Libraries." In Building a Virtual Library, edited by Ardis Hanson and Bruce Lubotsky Levin, 20-36. Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing, 2003.