Many believe that the heart of a library is within its collection (not to mention its staff). This two day session will give small library directors and staffs an overview of issues dealing with collection development and maintenance.

Course Objectives include:

The frame of collection development: budgets, selection criteria and resources, and policy.

Intellectual freedom, diversity in collections, and censorship issues.

Digital resources and collection development for eContent

Encourage you to explore marketing and promoting your collections.

The beauty of weeding.

This is a two-day course and is one of the four required courses for non-degreed small library (serving pop. under 10,000) directors. You MUST register for both days to qualify for certificate completion.