4.18+Project+Collection+Development+Policy

COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY - A CUMULATIVE PROJECT - 30 POINTS


 * Do not wait until the last minute for this project. It can take quite a bit of time. By all means incorporate the information that you have already created from your earlier projects! If you use any of the policies that you identified for your intellectual freedom "Reconsideration Policy" be sure to use information from at least three additional schools. I am interested in your having a broad experience of seeing how other schools are handling these issues. **

No collection is (ought not to be) developed without an overarching philosophy as well as a policy. Most of us are not going to create a policy from scratch but will look around and see what others have said, select the best, and mash it all together with our own philosophical and educational beliefs. This makes a lot of sense. There is no great virtue in struggling with the specific wording of something that someone else has captured carefully in an agreeable form. Realistically you will not develop a collection policy by yourself unless you are in a very small school. **For this reason, you may collaborate with one other member of the class and turn in a joint project. This is not a requirement but an option.**

The purpose of a collection development policy is “ to define the principles and guidelines that govern the selection and maintenance of the library collection.” I can't remember where I found this wording, but it works well as a guide for collection policy development: "to place principle above personal opinion, and reason above prejudice in the selection of materials of the highest quality, in order to assure a comprehensive collection appropriate for the users of the library."


 * PUT TOGETHER A COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY:** Select a minimum of two of the policies I have listed below **plus** **three of your own choice** that are not on the list and create a sample collection development policy on your wiki. Create a new page and name it “Collection Development Policy.”

Pull together the main points that you want in your collection development policy from the sources you are using. > On the ALA Web site is a great overall discussion of the major elements of a collection development policy, Use this as a guide for developing your own collaboratively-developed policy. As you peruse other examples of collection development policies be sure to add elements to your own document that are missing from the ALA suggestion. These are living documents.
 * Be sure to start out with your own Vision, Mission, and Long Term Goals that you created earlier in this course.
 * Use your own recently developed Reconsideration Policy.
 * At the end of each paragraph, I want you to note the source of the policy information, e.g. (Lee's Summit R-7 School District).
 * At the end of your policy be sure to give me the full citation for the school district policies you consulted.
 * Your grade will be based on how complete your policy is as well as citations.
 * WHAT GOES INTO A COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICY?**

"Workbook for Selection Policy Writing." //American Library Association//. American Library Association, n.d. Web. 20 Jan. 2016. <[]>.
 * Be sure that your collection development policy specifically includes references to digital material, including Web sites that may have been collected as part of pathfinder development.
 * Pentlin, Floyd. "Banned Web Sites: Are Your Policies Up-to-Date?" //Knowledge Quest//. 8 Sept. 2015. Web. <[]>.
 * Johnson, Doug. "Censorship by Omission." // The Blue Skunk Blog // . 24 July. 2009. Web. 20 May 2010. < [] >.
 * Harris, Christopher. "Fight the Fight, But Pick Filtering Battles Carefully in K-12." //District Dispatch.// 11 June, 2014. Web. 20 Jan. 2016. <[]>.


 * SAMPLE COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT POLICIES**

Blue Valley School District, Overland Park, Kansas: “Selection Policy 4600” []

Chicago Public Schools, Chicago, Illinois: “Chicago Public Schools Policy Manual: New Collection Development Policy for School Libraries” []

Baltimore County Public Schools []

Atlantic City School District Library Development Reconsideration and Collection Policy 2012 []


 * This assignment has a rubric which will be found in the RUBRICS link on Bb.**