Dear Diary,I have been in my collection development rotation for a few weeks. I would not recommend the overlapping of rotations. It is just too perplexing as one inevitably takes a back seat. But now I am 100% dedicated to Collection Development.
We have toured the stacks reviewing a conspectus from another university to compare our level of coverage in the same call number range. It was quite instructional to see what we have. We got through African religions and African Americans in the World Wars and20th century US conflicts today.
We reviewed our holdings to see what we lack in specific areas. Sometimes we found next to nothing. One explanation may be our different cataloging designations and some things may end up in different locations.
We have reviewed the BNA budget website from Blackwell. We reviewed selector profiles and fund types (such as restrictive, endowed, etc...)
For collection sources we have reviewed the approval plan, alibris, bolerium, worldcat, bibliographies and encyclopedias, redlightgreen.com (per my suggestion) and Choice reviews.
We have mini-meetings lasting approximately 30 minutes. We all agree that this is about all one can really spend before losing focus and before your mind starts wandering.
Bravo!
