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HELEN LADRÓN DE GUEVARA COX Center for the Quality and Innovation of Higher Education (CCIES) Library Research & Spe

International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Section on Acquisition and Collection Development Standing Committee Mid - Term Meeting Library of Andalucía Granada, Spain 8 – 10 March, 2007. HELEN LADRÓN DE GUEVARA COX

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HELEN LADRÓN DE GUEVARA COX Center for the Quality and Innovation of Higher Education (CCIES) Library Research & Spe

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  1. International Federation of Library Associations and InstitutionsSection on Acquisition and Collection Development Standing Committee Mid - Term MeetingLibrary of Andalucía Granada, Spain8 – 10 March, 2007 HELEN LADRÓN DE GUEVARA COX Center for the Quality and Innovation of Higher Education (CCIES) Library Research & Special Projects Unit CUCEA- University of Guadalajara, México THE NEED TO INCREASE CONCIOUSNESS ON COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICAN LIBRARIES: QUANTITY OR QUALITY?: A MEXICAN EXPERIENCE. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  2. IFLA´s Publications • Valuable information resouce • Fundamental for library development • All forms of working documents: toolkits, guidelines, recommendations... HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  3. Some Risks & Dangers Limited Collection Assessmentin Mexico • Collection development (CD)falls behind. • Difficults country´s competitivity and participation in global economy. • Technologycal and scientific dependence of well developed countries. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  4. ACCESS TO INFORMATIONSpanish Language ___________________________________ • Most CD professional literature published in English. • Translations are a must for Latin American countries - Mexico. • Greater problem for empirical librarians • Professionals not affiliated to IFLA or other library associations due to high costs. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  5. TYPES OF LIBRARIES AND LEVELS OF COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT (CD)MEXICO • Academic libraries ( 809) : good technology, higher number of professional librarians and collection growth... * ( local needs & programs). • Public libraries: National Network since (7,010) covers 2,236 municipalities of the 2,451 in the country**. (mainly centralized CD). • Other public libraries: Jalisco State New Public Library Project. Largest in the country. ( CD Policy Statement in progress). *Consejo Nacional para Asuntos Bibliotecarios de las Instituciones de Educación Superior en México. Diagnóstico de los sistemas bibliotecarios de las Instituciones de Educación Superior participantes en el CONPAB-IES. México: SEP, Diorección General de Educación Superior, 2005, p. 15. * http://dgb.conaculta.gob.mx/html/ docs/ organización.pdf. Tuesday, Feb., 27, 2007. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  6. THE QUESTION OF THE 64 THOUSAND PESOS!!!! • Are collections of good quality? • Are they pertinent? To what degree? • The collections sustain the country´s cultural, social economic and political development? • What is their budget allocation for acquisitions / collection development? • What are the subject priorities? • Are we loosing our indigeneous people literature? • Density and / or intensity? In which collections? HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  7. INCIPIENT INFORMATION CULTURE • Federal law of the Right to Access to Public Information ( April, 2002). • Most state laws on the subject completed. • Research on CD- Acquisitions budget allocation of state universities. • Limited or non existing information culture for common citizen. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  8. BENEFITS OF INFORMATIONON COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT • Reduce the abyss of limited information • Know collections strenghts. • Know collections weaknesses. • Improve local / regional / national development. • State of- the-art on CD and impact on Collection Management. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  9. OTHER QUESTIONS • Budget required to initiate, maintain and advance quality along with quantity? • Is Collection Management really understood? • How to handle gifts? • Local or centralized acquisitions & collection development? HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  10. STANDARDS, INDICATORS, GUIDELINES • Norms of the National Council on Library Matters of Institutions of Higher Education (CONPAB-IES- 2003) based on the Norms of the Association of Institutions of Higher Education ( ABIESI, 1976): surpassed, numeric formulas, open-ended. • National Network of Public Libraries ( Library Law ( 1987), open-ended for CD purposes which benefit collections for educational purposes: ( elementary-high school levels). HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  11. COLLECTION ASSESSMENT • Internship at Arizona State University. • Need for comparisons Mexican / American academic collections and other Spanish & Portuguese language countries. • WLN Collection Assessment Manual(1992) • IFLA A&CD Section. Guidelines for a collection development policy using the Conspectus model. ( Spanish version translated by Dora Biblarz. 2001). HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  12. NEEDS • Workshops in the CD field • Working kit how- to- prepare a collection development policy statement. • Assess Mexican collections with international collection depth indicators. • Share experiences / knowledge of similar experiences. • Consortia, resource sharing, improve interlibrary loan. • Use of a simplified Conspectus method or other. • Relationship with library certification. • Control gifts / donations of books... HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  13. PROPOSALS • Design and launch a survey on the status of CD assessment activity in Mexican academic and key public libraries. • Act as a facilitator for the survey • Contact pertinent library groups • Timetable of 12-16 months. • Share findings with the A & CD Section-IFLA. Quebec 2008. • Fill out gap of information on CD assessment methods used in the Mexicanlibraries. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  14. CONCLUSION • The A&CD Section of IFLA plays a very important role. • Contributes to move the empiric practice of CD into the scientific dominion. • Potentialize library collections in Mexico. • Pertinent library collections. • Library financial resources will be more efficient. • Improve status of library work. • Increase credibility of general public. HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

  15. THE END I thank you on behalf of my colleages of the land of the ancient aztecs!!!! HLG / IFLA Section A&CD/Mid-Term Meeting / March 2007

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