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 →
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 →
Module 5 of ETL503 introduced a new idea to me – how to evaluate a library collection. In my head, I had always thought of a librarian’s role superficially with limited thoughts into the practicality of how to actually manage the collection. Johnson (2018) spoke about the importance of evaluation and assessment of library collections… Continue reading →
As a teacher, I always stress to my students the importance of putting information into their own words to avoid plagiarism and copyright laws. Only upon reading Module 4 of ETL503 did I realise the extent of the laws that exist… and I’m sure even some of these go further and deeper than I’ve researched.… Continue reading →
Reading the third module and associated readings, for ELT503 about the Accession and Acquisition of the library collection, I found a few key ideas that jumped out at me that I wanted to reflect on. The first idea was the importance of the librarian being a negotiator and being able to advocate for the importance… Continue reading →
