Please join us on Sunday, Jan. 9, from 4:00-5:30 pm in Room 25 C
of the San Diego Convention Center for the ALCTS Collection
Management and Development Section Forum:

Is Selection Dead? The Rise of Collection Management and the
Twilight of Selection

Collection development is undergoing a dramatic change. With the
rise of collection management, collection development as we've
known it is becoming a dying art.  Title by title selection is
rapidly being replaced by expanding approval plan coverage,
aggregator packages, and "take it or leave it" big deals.
Administrators are worried that traditional selection takes too
much time and effort, and the growing trend toward patron-driven
selection, as well as the growth of Google Books and digital
repositories further challenge the traditional roles of selectors
and collection development librarians.  What is the overall
impact of these trends? How is our intellectual work and
engagement shifting? As we work in broader strokes selecting
packages and developing digital collections, what are the
implications for our knowledge of our collections overall? Is the
shift from collection development to collection management a
process of deprofessionalization and disintermediation of the
selector, or an exciting new model we should all embrace?

Moderator: Harriet Lightman (Northwestern University)

Panelists: Rick Anderson (University of Utah), Steve Bosch
(University of Arizona), Nancy Gibbs (Duke University), and Reeta
Sinha (Baker & Taylor/YBP).


Cory Tucker
Head of Collection Management
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Phone: (702)895-2133
Fax: (702)895-2284
Email: cory.tucker@unlv.edu

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