"Library collection development is the process of systematically building the collection of a particular library to meet the information needs of the library users..."
Understanding the principles and practices of collection development for youth materials in a library or museum setting. Knowing how to select and purchase materials, assess their quality and relevance, and manage the budget. Learning how to weed and maintain the collection.
Collection Development Policies: These are guidelines that libraries and museums use to guide selection, acquisition, and removal of materials in their collections.
Resource Selection: This is the process of choosing materials that will populate a library's or museum's collection, with a focus on the needs and interests of patrons or visitors.
Collection Management: The process of organizing and maintaining materials in a library or museum's collection, which includes storage, preservation, and weeding.
Diversity and Inclusion: The process of considering the representation of diverse groups in the collection development process.
Weeding or Deaccessioning: Deciding on the removal of materials from a collection based on their relevance or condition, and the need to make space for new materials.
Collection Analysis and Evaluation: Looking critically at a collection's strengths and weaknesses, then considering possible ways to improve it.
Budgeting and Funding: Deciding how much money should be allocated to purchases of new materials, and where funding is going to come from.
Intellectual Freedom and Censorship: The ideas of freedom of expression, the First Amendment, and the balance between providing access to controversial materials and protecting patrons from materials that are potentially harmful.
Outreach and Programming Support: The ways and means of reaching out to individuals and groups, and coordinating materials to support on-site and off-site programming initiatives.
Library Collection and Information Access: Strategies for researching, cataloguing, and promoting access to a library's or museum's collection.
E-Resources: The acquisition and management of electronic library resources, including online databases, e-books, and digital media.
Collection Preservation: Strategies for protecting and caring for library/museum materials to extend their longevity.
Intellectual Property: An understanding of intellectual property rights, including copyright and fair use, and how they relate to collection development.
Interdisciplinary Issues: Diverse perspectives and interdisciplinary relationships among collection management and other library/museum practices.
Special Collections: Maintaining and promoting collections that have a unique historical, artistic, or cultural value.
Generalist Collection Development: This involves selecting materials for a broad range of subjects and interests, in consideration of the library or museum's target youth audience.
Specialized Collection Development: This involves selecting materials for a specific area or subject like technology, religion, sports, or fine arts.
Subject Services: This involves developing a targeted collection based on the specific interests and needs of the youth audience in a particular community.
Multicultural Services: This involves developing a collection with materials representing different cultures and identities to enhance cultural diversity in libraries/museums.
Age-Based Services: This involves tailor-making collections to the specific developmental stages of the targeted youth audience, such as picture books for toddlers, chapter books for middle graders, and young adult fiction for teenagers.
Format-Based Services: This involves selecting materials based on their format, such as audiobooks for visually impaired youth, graphic novels for visual learners, and DVDs for visual and auditory learners.
Digital Collection Development: This involves selecting and acquiring digital materials such as e-books, audiobooks, and streaming media to support learners in a digital age.
Outreach Services: This involves reaching out to the youth audience in their environments beyond the library's premises and building partnerships with local schools, community groups, and other cultural organizations.
Popular and Emerging Trends Services: This involves curating a trendy and up-to-date collection of materials such as fan-fiction, manga, and comic books to capture and maintain the attention of young audiences.
"...to meet the information needs of the library users (a service population) in a timely and economical manner..."
"According to the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA)..."
"...methodological and topical themes pertaining to acquisition of print and other analogue library materials..." and "...the licensing and purchase of electronic information resources."
"Collection development involves activities that need a librarian or information professional who is specialized in improving the library's collection."
"The process includes the selection of information materials that respond to the users or patrons need..."
"...as well as de-selection of unwanted information materials, called weeding."
"It also involves the planning strategies for continuing acquisition..."
"...evaluation of new information materials and the existing collection..."
"...in order to determine how well a particular library serves its users."
"...using information resources locally held as well as resources from other organizations."
"...by purchase, exchange, gift, legal deposit..."
"A librarian or information professional who is specialized in improving the library's collection."
"...de-selection of unwanted information materials, called weeding."
"...to meet the information needs of the library users..."
"...the licensing and purchase of electronic information resources."
"...selection of information materials that respond to the users or patrons need..."
"...de-selection of unwanted information materials, called weeding."
"...planning strategies for continuing acquisition..."
"...determine how well a particular library serves its users."