collection development in cyberspace

[jim hewitt]

Gilbert, Richard A wrote:

> ..we intend to use our student workers as collectors (they work
> >> with
> >> the web as they assist in the lab and their contacts with "surfers"
>
> >> are
> >> much more common than ours) as well as soliciting imput from
> students
> >> to
> >> a much greater degree than before...
>
>         That is an interesting idea I had not encountered before.  How
> are you
> planning to implement this policy?  Are the student workers going to
> have the last word, or are you setting up some sort of review of their
>
> collected sites?  Also how are you going to solicit the students to
> input suggestions?
>         Sorry to have so many questions instead of responding to your
> own, but
> working in a government facility where everyone has their own PC and
> Internet access sort of precludes any Internet policy for my library.
>
> Richard Gilbert
> ragilbert at ems.jsc.nasa.gov

 as far as solicitation is concerned, we're thinking at this point of
putting up a "submit a URL" thingie on each of our reference "links" web
pages, as well as making our interest known via print sources here on
campus...

what we're in the process of doing right now is publishing those
"selections" by including them on the reference "links" pages,
categorized by major and minor offered here at the college...our next
step will be to begin filtering them and "adding value" by annotating
them on the web site...we're looking at having our student workers and
reference personnel alike write these annotations, and then a couple of
us will be "editors" of the annotations...

those sites most useful will then be added to our web based catalog as
well, giving access via the "traditional" avenue of the opac, and the
"cutting edge" of the web...

what's interesting to me is that the actual cataloging on the opac will
provide more access points, controlled access points at that, but will
probably be the avenue least "accessed"...
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