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Collection Development Education Committee

Purpose:

To identify collection development education needs and facilitate meeting those needs through in-service programs; to study issues and trends in collection development programs of schools of library and information science; to create guidelines for improved collection development training and essential skills; to inform the library and information community on collection development education issues and practices.

Chair:

Deborah Abston (Co-Chair--2007 - 2008)

Deborah Gaspar (Co-Chair--2007 - 2008)

Membership:

Roster

Resource Persons:

Feel free to contact these individuals if you have questions regarding collection development issues.

• Joan Bernstein
• Jill Newby
• Justina Osa

Recent Programs:

Real World Collection Development: What You Didn't Learn in Library School (ALA 2003 Pre-conference)

Tools for Collection Assessment (2006 Annual Conference Program)

Publications:

• Survey of Collection Development Courses at ALA Accredited Programs (2002)
• Collection Development Resources (2002)   
  Sections on collection development web sites, bibliographies, and continuing education resources.