Am I being unreasonable?
Here is this week's assignment as written on the website:
Draft Due Workshop 5, final due one week later
Goal: To crate a collection map that projects the future of the collection owned alongside the conspet of connection development.
Product: A collection map in infographic format with speaker notes.
Tips: Proposed Collection Map and the Budget
The goal is to produce a proposed collection map that shows targets for the growth and development of the collection over a time period you designate.
First: Create the Proposed Collection Map infographic.
Create a graphic that can be shown to a non-librarian audience. This graphic can be placed along side your current collection map. The first shows the status of the current collection.
For this map, you will need to repeat each collection segment of the previous map, but show where it will be moving and changing. For each collection segment pictured, make sure that you indicate Build, Maintain, or downsize; Quality indicators of your target, and the money needed to build or maintain the collection.
Remember that you can add new emphasis collections to this infographic that were not on the current collection map. These will be topics that you will be building to pull them out of core collection status into the emphasis collections.
Post your rough draft to the appropriate gallery where your Pres. 3 map was placed. Do this before workshop five. Make sure that your revised collection map from pres. 3 is on the left and your draft proposed collection map is on the right for comparison by the entire class.
After your proposed collection map has been approved and graded by the instructor, add the revision to the gallery if you have had to revise it.
Second: Before submitting your rough draft proposed collection map to Engrade, write speaker notes that you can include in the Engrade message alongside the url for your map. You should include the following in your speaker notes:
Explain the current budget
Who is going to give you advice to build, maintain, or "let it die" over the next logical time period?
This pictorial representation will be a direct extension of the collection map you drew in presentation 3.
What should happen to each segment of your collection map in the future. Should it be maintained? Built? Downsized?
Be sure to estimate the financial implications of each decision you make over the time period you select.
Show a revised budget that demonstrates where monies will be targeted to meet your goals.
What sources of revenue will be used to build each of the emphasis areas and the core collection? Regular budget? A grant? A special allocation from the sponsoring organization?
here's the e-mail the prof just sent us:
In looking at a number of submission s for presentation 4, I am returning them for essentially the same reason.
As you know, we are trying to increase emphasis on connection development rather than what the library owns or "rents" such as databases or contracts with ebook vendors. All that would be considered "owned" materilas.
We are looking into the world of OER or "open educational resources" that include connections to free resources. Examples might include:
Museums such as art galleries that provide a free look at main of the items on display.
Libraries that have digitized collections of manuscripts, research studies, archival materials that can be viewed and used for free by anyone.
Organizations that provide all kinds of tutorials to learn things such as Khan Academy
Many other sources that we listed in our previous sessions
I would like you to think and include such resources that can easily double or triple anything owned by the library on most any topic you can think about.
Free resources are not free, since they will involve staff time. We thought instead of money attached to that part of a topic that perhaps an hourglass or two or three or four might accompany the dollar amounts being spent on a particular topical collection.
Let's say I was building out my bird collection since I have a major birder club in the community. Yes, I build the owned collection, but there all all kinds of organizations that I can link my birder group into: experts, other clubs, identification resources, tutorials on bird watching; travel opportunities, aviaries, etc., etc., etc. Suddenly, my "digital" collection is larger than the owned collection. Make sense?
See what you can do to change the course of traditional collection development in a world where you are competing with Google!!!!!!!!!
So should I or should I not be irritated about the shift in emphasis between what he's asking for in the e-mail vs what's on the website? We talked about including "connection development" in our infographics in the lecture after we'd already workshopped our rough drafts, and it sounded like it was supposed to be in there but not the main show.
Moving goalposts? I lack comprehension? He lacks communication?
Draft Due Workshop 5, final due one week later
Goal: To crate a collection map that projects the future of the collection owned alongside the conspet of connection development.
Product: A collection map in infographic format with speaker notes.
Tips: Proposed Collection Map and the Budget
The goal is to produce a proposed collection map that shows targets for the growth and development of the collection over a time period you designate.
First: Create the Proposed Collection Map infographic.
Create a graphic that can be shown to a non-librarian audience. This graphic can be placed along side your current collection map. The first shows the status of the current collection.
For this map, you will need to repeat each collection segment of the previous map, but show where it will be moving and changing. For each collection segment pictured, make sure that you indicate Build, Maintain, or downsize; Quality indicators of your target, and the money needed to build or maintain the collection.
Remember that you can add new emphasis collections to this infographic that were not on the current collection map. These will be topics that you will be building to pull them out of core collection status into the emphasis collections.
Post your rough draft to the appropriate gallery where your Pres. 3 map was placed. Do this before workshop five. Make sure that your revised collection map from pres. 3 is on the left and your draft proposed collection map is on the right for comparison by the entire class.
After your proposed collection map has been approved and graded by the instructor, add the revision to the gallery if you have had to revise it.
Second: Before submitting your rough draft proposed collection map to Engrade, write speaker notes that you can include in the Engrade message alongside the url for your map. You should include the following in your speaker notes:
Explain the current budget
Who is going to give you advice to build, maintain, or "let it die" over the next logical time period?
This pictorial representation will be a direct extension of the collection map you drew in presentation 3.
What should happen to each segment of your collection map in the future. Should it be maintained? Built? Downsized?
Be sure to estimate the financial implications of each decision you make over the time period you select.
Show a revised budget that demonstrates where monies will be targeted to meet your goals.
What sources of revenue will be used to build each of the emphasis areas and the core collection? Regular budget? A grant? A special allocation from the sponsoring organization?
here's the e-mail the prof just sent us:
In looking at a number of submission s for presentation 4, I am returning them for essentially the same reason.
As you know, we are trying to increase emphasis on connection development rather than what the library owns or "rents" such as databases or contracts with ebook vendors. All that would be considered "owned" materilas.
We are looking into the world of OER or "open educational resources" that include connections to free resources. Examples might include:
Museums such as art galleries that provide a free look at main of the items on display.
Libraries that have digitized collections of manuscripts, research studies, archival materials that can be viewed and used for free by anyone.
Organizations that provide all kinds of tutorials to learn things such as Khan Academy
Many other sources that we listed in our previous sessions
I would like you to think and include such resources that can easily double or triple anything owned by the library on most any topic you can think about.
Free resources are not free, since they will involve staff time. We thought instead of money attached to that part of a topic that perhaps an hourglass or two or three or four might accompany the dollar amounts being spent on a particular topical collection.
Let's say I was building out my bird collection since I have a major birder club in the community. Yes, I build the owned collection, but there all all kinds of organizations that I can link my birder group into: experts, other clubs, identification resources, tutorials on bird watching; travel opportunities, aviaries, etc., etc., etc. Suddenly, my "digital" collection is larger than the owned collection. Make sense?
See what you can do to change the course of traditional collection development in a world where you are competing with Google!!!!!!!!!
So should I or should I not be irritated about the shift in emphasis between what he's asking for in the e-mail vs what's on the website? We talked about including "connection development" in our infographics in the lecture after we'd already workshopped our rough drafts, and it sounded like it was supposed to be in there but not the main show.
Moving goalposts? I lack comprehension? He lacks communication?