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Reflection on ETL503 – Resourcing the Curriculum

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When thinking about librarians choosing what books to add to their library, I had never considered constraints such as budget, copyright, censorship or even selection criteria. What more did a librarian have to do to add a book to the library, but find the book, add it to the system, contact it and put it… Continue reading

Collection Development Policies

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When first hearing the term ‘Collection development policy’ while undertaking this subject I was a little bit taken aback to realise that hard copies and written documents actually existed. After all, didn’t librarians just find out about new resources and make a judgement about them? Or order in texts because others had requested them? When… Continue reading