Collection Development in Academic Libraries: What does the Future Hold?
Venue 1: Bar Convent, York on June 9th (This seminar did not take place)
Venue 2: CILIP HQ, London on November 12th (Booking Now!)
Theme
The seminar will aim to look at the question of Collection Development in academic libraries, consider what factors are likely to affect how collections develop, and decide how collections are likely to respond to these stimuli and change over the course of next few years.
Content and Influences
- the shift from print- to e-resources
- to what extent will this continue and develop in academic libraries? (is a total e-library likely in the next 10 years?)
- what is the developing attitude within the publishing industry to e-material especially as regards the e-textbook
- the print collection and the space issue
- the declining usage of print material
- how can we justify the space occupied by journals back issues and print books in the light of the growing demand from users for more learning and social interaction space
- the collection and 'new' undergraduate
- how must the concept of collection change to meet the needs of the 'digital native'?
- the development of patron driven acquisitions
- the collection and the researcher
- statistics show declining levels of library usage by academics and researchers -how does the collection need to change to reverse this trend?
- the possibilities of digitisation
- the effect of financial stringency and budget cuts on collection development
- the case for continuing with the traditional print collection
Our Speakers
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Hazel Woodward (Cranfield University Library)
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Steve Sharp (Leeds University Library)
“The future-proof Library: space, collections and the ‘new’ undergraduate”.
Traditionally, library collections have grown in an organic way, with new subject collections spawning and growing out of existing ones, especially in older, research-intensive institutions. There has been little concern for space or financial prudence. However, with financial cutbacks in the HE sector, mounting space pressures, and changes in customer behaviour, libraries are being forced to radically re-think their acquisition and collection management policies, and, indeed, the very nature of the collections themselves. Continued uninhibited growth in print collections has become unsustainable. Print journal collections are being replaced by online packages, and the advent of e-books is starting to have an impact on traditional book collections. How will the library adapt to these new drivers and what will the library of the future look like?
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Jill Beard (Bournemouth University Library) London/Sarah Thompson (University of York) York
Eileen Hiller (Huddersfield University Library)
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Sally Curry (Research Information Network)
Prices held again this year!
The fee for NAG Members is £150 + VAT and Non-Members £200 +VAT
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