collection development in cyberspace

[jim hewitt]

Karl Bridges wrote:
all right now...the man asked me a question and i answered it in another
post...as you will read, should you do so, there is no question of
"turning over" a collection to freshmen students...

mr. bridges, at least some of those same freshmen might wait to jump on
someone before the facts are available...

insulting?  yes, i was...not insulting you, but insulted *BY YOU*...

> >
> >         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?
>
>         This really concerns me.  I have nothing against users
> suggesting web
> sites (much in the same way that users recommend books), however, to
> turn the collection of web sites over to students is a problem.
>   There's no way that you can call this kind of activity "collection
> development".  Students are not trained to evaluate web sites or
> content.  This seems to be the same as turning your collection
> development for printed materials over to students.  In a month you
> have a library that consists of comic books, pornography, and heavy
> metal magazines.
>    Development of a useful web site in the library environment needs
> to be done by trained subject specialists who have the education,
> training, and experience to properly evaluate and organize the
> information in a useful manner.  To say that some freshman student can
>
> do a better job than a trained library professional with subject area
> graduate degrees is insulting.


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