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Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Intensive Deselection To Enable Preservation And Access, Colleen Hoelscher, Jillian Ewalt
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Intensive Deselection To Enable Preservation And Access, Colleen Hoelscher, Jillian Ewalt
Colleen Hoelscher
In 2014, the Marian Library at the University of Dayton completed a long overdue revision of its collection development policy. The new document more clearly defined the scope of the library’s collections, and was intended to guide new acquisition decisions. However, this new document had the unexpected benefit of providing a framework for deselection projects that enabled preservation and improved access to the collections.
This paper will discuss and analyze two of these projects, and demonstrate how the revised collection development policy laid the foundation for successful deselection outcomes. In the first case study, legacy collections of genre-based ephemera were …
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Intensive Deselection To Enable Preservation And Access, Colleen Hoelscher, Jillian M. Ewalt
Separating The Wheat From The Chaff: Intensive Deselection To Enable Preservation And Access, Colleen Hoelscher, Jillian M. Ewalt
Marian Library Faculty Presentations
In 2014, the Marian Library at the University of Dayton completed a long overdue revision of its collection development policy. The new document more clearly defined the scope of the library’s collections, and was intended to guide new acquisition decisions. However, this new document had the unexpected benefit of providing a framework for deselection projects that enabled preservation and improved access to the collections.
This paper will discuss and analyze two of these projects, and demonstrate how the revised collection development policy laid the foundation for successful deselection outcomes. In the first case study, legacy collections of genre-based ephemera were …
Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie M. Delserone, Erica Defrain
Collection Development Policy, Digital Commons Institutional Repository, University Of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Sue Ann Gardner, Paul Royster, Linnea Fredrickson, Kathleen A. Johnson, Leslie M. Delserone, Erica Defrain
UNL Libraries: Collection Development Policies
Purpose of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Digital Commons Institutional Repository Collection Development Policy
This collection development policy is intended to provide guidance for content selection that anticipates and meets the needs of the communities of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL). It directly relates to the library's vision statement and defines the scope and standards that guide the services that generate the collection.
Purpose of the UNL Digital Commons Institutional Repository
The UNL institutional repository (IR) comprises services that result in the stewardship and global online dissemination of content created and selected by UNL authors and affiliates. With the aim of …