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Workshop: Making a Collection Count
August 11, 2023 @ 9:00 am – 3:30 pm CDT
Join us for a day-long collection development workshop! We’ll start off with collection management basics, which explores the collection life cycle. Everything from selection to cataloging to weeding – and everything in between – will be introduced. Then we’ll learn how to analyze collection use with metrics, statistics, and audits. We’ll end the day with a deep dive into one of the more intricate collection workflows: weeding. Learn to weed library collections respectfully and with intention, in a continuous manner. All together, these concepts will help you to make your collection count!
And if there are specific questions you want covered during the workshop, let us know when you register so we can be sure to add them to the presentation. (You can always ask questions during the workshop, too.)
Holly Hibner is the Adult Services Coordinator at the Plymouth District Library in Plymouth, Michigan. She has a mild obsession with weeding (ok, maybe not so mild), and can often be found walking the stacks looking for missing, damaged, and just plain weird titles. She also loves the challenge of a good reference question. Holly also grows new public librarians through her gig as Adjunct Professor in the library school at Wayne State University.
Mary Kelly is the Digital Resources and Emerging Technologies Librarian at the Plymouth District Library in Plymouth, Michigan. She is passionate about collection quality, and when she’s not wrangling with Overdrive, she is usually hunched over the computer looking at spreadsheets. She spent a few years in Youth Services, molding young minds through Toddler Disco.
For street cred, Holly and Mary co-authored the book Making a Collection Count: A Holistic Approach to Library Collection Management. Reading it will surely change your life, so interlibrary loan a copy today! They are also co-authors of the popular blog Awful Library Books.
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This project was funded either under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act from the Institute of Museum and Library Services or the Library Cooperative Grant program. Florida’s LSTA and LCG programs are administered by the Department of State’s Division of Library and Information Services. For FY2024, 73% of the total costs for the PLAN Continuing Education program ($223,959) is supported by federal money and 27% of this program ($81,361) is supported by state money. The total budget of the project is $305,320.