Collection development policies for the web

[Leslie Burke - Amway Corporation]

Christine,
We haven't included specifics about www sites in our collection
development policy specifically, but for what it's worth, here's my
opinion -- the Internet is just another source, therefore we won't
"collect"/link to anything on the net that we wouldn't normally collect in
any other media. To me the issues are the same -- if it's
appropriate/inappropriate in one media, why should another media make any
difference?

Leslie Burke, Corporate Librarian or Sally Akehi, Asst. Librarian
Amway Corporation
7575 Fulton St. E
Ada, MI  49355-0001
616-787-6308; FAX 616-787-7142
burkel at mlc.lib.mi.us

On Thu, 22 May 1997, Christine Menard wrote:

> Dear Fellow librarians,
> 
> My library is considering writing a collection development policy for the
> WWW (the idea is to have a document stating what we include in our
> web page and what we link to).
> 
> I would really like to hear from other libraries using such policy
> statement or from libraries who decided against such a document.
> Any thoughts on the matter would be greatly helpful..
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Christine Menard
> Reference/Assistant Systems Librarian
> Williams College
> Williamstown, MA 01267
> 
> 413-597-2515
> cmenard at williams.edu
> 
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