1 / 15

Awareness trumps both access and ownership: collection development for small CJK collections

Awareness trumps both access and ownership: collection development for small CJK collections. Sharon Domier s elf-professed agile East Asian Studies Librarian for Amherst College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

posy
Download Presentation

Awareness trumps both access and ownership: collection development for small CJK collections

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Awareness trumps both access and ownership: collection development for small CJK collections Sharon Domier self-professed agile East Asian Studies Librarian for Amherst College, Smith College and the University of Massachusetts Amherst

  2. My chief mandate: to bridge the gap between information needs and information sources

  3. Start with 1st Years – Collaborate with instructors to set info lit goals

  4. Free dictionaries can be the right fit

  5. If you match books to their readers

  6. Meeting their information needs does not just mean buying materials

  7. We can save their time by providing clear guidance on appropriate tools, and statistics show our work is valued

  8. Access is impeded if users aren’t aware of how to interpret data

  9. Discovery tools like China Maxx provide more information than library catalogs or online bookstores

  10. Purchasing individual titles are much, much cheaper than using ILL.

  11. Thanks to Amherst College Library! I now use an iPad for both reference and collection development

  12. NCIKU e-books offer Chinese/English/Pinyin and Audio!

  13. Rodoku Shojo – text & audio

  14. Viewn: iPad app for current journals

  15. Awareness also means sharing and learning from each other. I look forward to hearing about your successes and challenges.Thank you!

More Related