http://hdl.handle.net/1808/23 Search the Channel search http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/simple-search http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5594 Title: Grappling with Changing Realities<br/><br/>Authors: Stratton, John; Currie, Lea; Claassen-Wilson, Monica; Devlin, Frances<br/><br/>Abstract: Imbued with the sense of mission to serve as cultural and intellectual bastions, research libraries have continued to build collections to meet both immediate and anticipated future scholarly needs across a broad range of disciplines. While this mission may still stand as a guiding precept today, the issues facing collection development librarians have changed immensely since the millennium. Some important questions remain: How do we continue to meet the mission of building research collections in an era marked by considerable budget constraints, technological innovation, new publishing models and changing expectations from users? How do we engage these changing realities?Over the last several years the University of Kansas (KU) Libraries have developed several methods to enhance traditional collection development practices in an effort to grapple with the continuing challenge of building research collections relevant to modern scholars and students. This presentation will provide an overview of these strategies, which have included improved ways both to develop and manage collections. Such methods have included improved ways to manage resource expenditures (spending deadlines, database steward program, approval plan review), engaging in collection building (e-book acquisitions, purchase on demand) and collection management practices (serial review, WorldCat Collection Analysis, significant analysis of recent monographic and database usage), among other approaches. In addition, we have guided our work with ideas gleaned from the perspective of institutional and library leadership about the future of research library collections and where such collections may be headed. The audience will be asked to share methods that we, as collection development professionals, can adopt to balance collection development practices within the institutional framework. Attendees can expect to learn how research libraries are adapting collection development strategies to meet the changing needs of users, ongoing budget constraints, and the vision of the future of collections as articulated by our library leadership. Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:12:40 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5564 Title: A Carto-Bibliography of the Maps in Eighteenth-Century British and American Geography Books<br/><br/>Authors: McCorkle, Barbara Backus<br/><br/>Abstract: This cartobibliography contains descriptions of approximately 6700 maps found in 470 books. Entries are arranged alphabetically by author/title, and each entry lists every map included in the book with the full title, dimensions, name(s) of any publisher, engraver or cartographer appearing on the map, and the page location within the work cited. There are three indexes: cartographer/engraver (page 329 of the PDF file), geographic (page 332), and publisher (page 392). The ESTC [English Short Title Catalogue] number is also given with each entry, enabling a researcher to locate copies and even call-numbers at participating libraries. The ESTC catalogue is freely accessible on-line at the British Library website at URL: http://www.bl.uk/. Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:35:14 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5548 Title: Academic Libraries and the Remaking of the Canon: Implications for Collection Development Librarians<br/><br/>Authors: Buchsbaum, Julianne<br/><br/>Abstract: An issue of central importance for academic librarians of the future will be how to perform successful collection development in a time of narrow budgets and a rapidly expanding universe of information. For librarians in the humanities, in particular, the issue of how to decide what to collect is even more fraught with tensions in a multicultural era in which conventional standards used to evaluate materials have been radically contested and in which the very existence of the canon, or any type of core collection, has been called into question. It will be important to the local culture of the college or university and the broader society as a whole for librarians to become more aware of their part in the process of canon-formation and the social construction of knowledge and for us to take into consideration the difficulty of balancing the needs of present and future scholars. This paper looks at how the canon has been problematized by postmodern critics, how this will affect collection development decisions, what librarians can do to address some of these issues and, finally, how electronic resources and hypertext are changing the role of the collection development librarian of the future. Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/1808/5441 Title: A Library for Engineering Education: Frank O. Marvin and the University of Kansas, 1875-1915<br/><br/>Authors: Neeley, James D.<br/><br/>Abstract: This article investigates the influence of developments in engineeringeducation on the establishment of departmental libraries for engineeringin late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American universities. Acase study is made of the University of Kansas and Frank O. Marvin, aformer president of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educationand dean of the university’s School of Engineering when its libraryopened in 1909. While national forces spanning the profession suppliedthe necessary preconditions for Kansas’s library, Marvin was the localcatalyst. His beliefs about what attributes the successful engineer shouldpossess and how a liberal education could produce those attributes madethe library inevitable. Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:00:00 GMT