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COURSE SYLLABUS

1. TITLE OF COURSE: Selection and Acquisitions - Online
  PREFIX/NUMBER: LTN 110 C11 CREDIT HOURS: 3 (3 lecture)
2. PREREQUISITE: One semester of keyboarding or demonstrated ability to type 30 words per minute.
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RESOURCES NEEDED:

A computer and Internet access, access to a library.
 

TEXT (provided to students):

The Crew Method: Expanded Guidelines for Collection Evaluation and Weeding for Small and Medium-Sized Public Libraries (Boon, 1995)

Required Readings (in course unit):

Collection Development in the Small Library (Cassell & Green, 1991)

“Collection Development” (Reese) from Libraries Inside (Rubin & Suvak, editors, 1995)

Others as assigned

 

Discussion Use:

Required; grade based upon participation.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This course introduces the student to the tools, vendors, jobbers, and approval plans that comprise the selection process.  It is also an introduction to acquisitions policies.  Students will do a course project.  The student will identify a library, apply a collection evaluation methodology to a section of the collection, identify and recommend items to be withdrawn, and recommend replacement titles.  Students will relate censorship issues to selection and acquisitions and understand the purposes of selection and materials challenge policies..
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COURSE GOAL:

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COURSE CONTENT:

 

A.

Discuss purposes of collection development and elements of collection development policies

 

B.

 Examine needs assessments and community analysis

 

C.

 Identify principles of materials selection and selection tools

 

D.

 Apply materials selection principles by weeding a library collection (CREW)
E. Identify censorship and intellectual freedom issues
F. Identify and apply principles of acquisitions (rebinding, vendors, jobbers, processing services)
G. Examine publishing industry (terminology, out-of-print, print-on-demand, and e-books)
7. LEARNER OUTCOMES:
Upon completion of this course, students should be able to:
A. Understand the elements and purpose of a collection development policy.
B. Summarize intellectual freedom and censorship issues.
C. Identify selection principles for both print and non-print materials for library collections.
D. Apply selection principles to weeding a library collection.
E. Evaluate selection tools to acquire library materials.
F. Explain the acquisitions issues that involve the publishing industry.
G. Identify principles and standards of acquisitions practice
H. Evaluate and select vendors
8. EVALUATION PROCEDURES:

Grade Writing Rubric Total Points

A Level 4 360-324

B Level 3 323-288

C Level 2 287-252

D Level 1 251-216
F Level 0 215-

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MAKE UP POLICY:

To receive full credit, all work must be submitted on time.  One point will be deducted for each day that an assignment is late.  Any special circumstances should be discussed with the instructor prior to the assignment due date.

10. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
  The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.  In addition, CCCOnline's Code of Conduct applies.
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ADA NOTICE:

Students who have a documented disability may be eligible to receive accommodations for this class. Please contact the Disability Resources Center at 549-3446 for further information.