Collection Development II Update
Posted:
October 30, 2003
Document author: Holly Ledvina
On October 15, 2003 OWLS sponsored part two of a Collection Development workshop. Twenty six librarians convened for lively discussion and debate. This year’s program focused on trends, challenges and opportunities in developing electronic, media and Latino collections!
Due to the overwhelming number of websites featured in the presentation I have decided to post an annotated list. I have also included the demographic charts. If you have further questions about the workshop or links on this page please contact me: Holly Ledvina.
Websites
- MedLine Plus : health topics, drug information, encyclopedias, dictionary, directories and news in medicine and research.
- Post-Crescent Online : the current and past headlines for the Post Crescent
- Post-Crescent Index (OWLS Libraries only) : full-text searching of the PC, three weeks behind
- Conducting literary research document : from Gale comes this excellent guide to conducting research paper writing from choosing a topic, how to write thesis statements, organize your paper and write citations
- How much information? (2000) : a project from Berkeley that details how much information there is in the US and the world for all formats.
- Pew Hispanic Study Center Report : The Rise of the Second Generation: Changing Patterns in Hispanic Population Growth
- L4L Latino Links : Annotated website list for collection development, children’s programming, general library resources, language resources, and Hispanic literature resources.
- Deep Web : a version of a white paper written by Michael K. Bergman about content that search engines cannot retrieve (2001 article)
- Children and interactive media : research and report from the Markle Center (2000)
From ALA ALSC (Association for Library Service for Children) Notable Lists:
Review Websites
Videos
Audio Books
Music
- Media Reviews Booklist : Booklist reviews all media but can be up to 4 months behind
- AllMusic : most comprehensive music site with search strategies by album title, performer, song title, style or label
- Music Critic : All types but heavy on rock and pop
- All Reviews : Music, videos, video games reviews
- Gramophone : Classical reviews
- FanFare : Primarily classical, some jazz reviews and interviews with performers
- Downbeat : Jazz reviews
Demographics
Supporting public libraries in Outagamie and Waupaca counties