INFM104 Acquisition And Management Of Collections

Objectives of the Assignment: On completion of this assignment you will have:

1. Read a trade article from current library related literature
2. Written a summary of the article
3. Reflected on ideas presented by the article’s author

Assignment:

Read the following article: ‘Meeting the challenge of simultaneously managing digital, electronic, and print collections’

Part 1 : Summary

• Who wrote the article? Why are they an expert on the topic?
• What is the article about? What are the main points? What are some ideas that the author gives to manage a diverse set of collections?

Part 2: Reflection

• What strategy do you think will be the easiest to accomplish and why? What strategy do you think will be the hardest to accomplish and why?

• What main idea or strategy will you remember from this article? Why did this idea seem particularly useful or important to you? How have you seen it applied in libraries?
• Find one other trade or academic article about the main idea or strategy you have chosen. Summarize the main ideas in this article briefly.
• How was this idea or strategy implemented? What was the outcome?

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