HIT: Collection Development policies, Part 2

["Hynes, Andrea" <hynes@POP.SEANET.COM>]

LM_NET,

In my search for collection development policies I discovered some
very helpful sites for people working on collection development
policies. Here is my list of collection development-related sites:

AcqWeb's Library & Information Science Resources of Interest to
Acquisitions and Collection Development Librarians
<http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/law/acqs/libsci.html#colldev>

American Library Association's Workbook for Selection policy writing.
<http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/books/ala.selection>

American Association of School Librarians (AASL)
Intellectual Freedom and Acceptable Use Policy
<http://www.ala.org/ICONN/cur_ifp.html>

Banned Books Online
<http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/spok/banned-books.html>

The Children's Literature Web Guide
<http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/textindex.html>

Copyright Information. U.S. Copyright Office
<gopher://marvel.loc.gov/11/copyright>

Copyright Website
<http://www.benedict.com/index.html>

Computers and Academic Freedom Archives, Library Policy Statements
Archives <http://www.eff.org/pub/CAF/library/>

ICONNECT, Intellectual Freedom and Acceptable Use Policy links
<http://www.ala.org/ICONN/cur_ifp.html>

Librarians Information Online Network:
Copyright and Fair Use Issues for School Librarians
<http://www.libertynet.org/~lion/copyright.html>

Patchwork: Handbook for Montana's Small School Libraries:
Collection Development by Mary Bushing
<http://www.lib.wmc.edu/pub/patchwork/collection.html>

Ramapo Catskill Library System:
Welcome to Library Land
<http://ansernet.rcls.org/libland/>

University of Arizona School of Information Resources and Library
Science Library Staff Training Resources: Public Services (see
"Philosophical Issues")
<http://www.sir.arizona.edu/sp97/560/web/StaffTrng/g10main.html>

Washington Library Media Association Online
<http://www.wlma.org/default.asp>

Note:  According to several bibliographies, the ALA publishes online
as of Aug 15, 1996 "a  comprehensive tool for creating selection
policies" called "ALA School Media Specialist Workbook for Writing
Selection Policies" at:
<http://www.bluehighways.com/freedom/slmworkbook.html>
I never had any luck accessing this page :-(  but, who knows,
 maybe you will!

Andrea Hynes







Andrea Hynes, Librarian
KidsConnect Volunteer
Graham Elementary School
10026 204th Street East
Graham, WA 98338
e-mail: hynes@seanet.com