Everyone in this village wanted a peek at what was happening. The World Reader Program has now be running for a few months and the children in this village school have about 500 kindles. Talk about skipping technologies. These schools have no books and now they have kindles. The study is to see if this will increase their reading levels. See the website: World Reader ProgramNow how does this all relate to my new class on collection management? Giving these schools a 2003 World Book Encyclopedia set with H missing is a great gift. Chalk is a scarce resource and now they have kindle.
So if I think of Collection Management and Collection Development and what is the difference, before I read anything...let's have a go?
Collection Management must mean managing the collection you already have and weeding, evaluating, testing the collection to see how it meets school needs and at the same time creating lists of what is needed.
Collection Development seems to infer that we are talking more about selection of new resources and how to meet the short and long terms needs and filling and finding holes in the curriculum.
Now let's read to experts...
John Kennedy defines collection management as the "activities that focus on the selection, acquisition, evaluation, preservation (how do you preserve books in Africa, especially during the harmattan) and deselection (or weeding) of library materials.
So selection is in there! HUMP
