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Building a library collection for the 21st century

 A warm welcome to our online community for course participants and others interested in trends and issues in 21st century collection development.

This is

a place to find useful and relevant content from our course

a place to share and discuss collection development related issues

a place to find links to relevant information on trends and issues.

Please feel free to access these resources, raise issues and make contributions whenever you wish.

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Why have a collection?

Posted by: Sue Esterman 15 Jun 12

Our workshop came up with the following reasons - I have tried to group them sensibly, but hey, it's Friday!

Internet issues:

  • not always reliable
  • many students do not have access from home

learning support

  • aids a variety of learning styles
  • children learn to browse and share - easier to share a book than a screen
  • multiple references
  • fact-checking
  • note-taking
  • central area

Cost factors - may be cheaper to maintain than ebooks and readers

Books are good to hold, physical aspect

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