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Collection Development, Reference & Basic Skills–Hot Topic Summer 08

Posted by communitycollegelibraries on January 20, 2009

Notes from ALA Annual Community College Hot Topics Discussion about collection development, reference, and basic skills

Thanks to David Wright for this summary!

Collection Development, Reference, & Basic Skills
Vendors and Community Colleges
Educate vendors about community college budgets.  JSTOR has a community college model.  It seems that other vendors don’t listen.  EBSCO has a vocational database.  Carnegie classification is a “fairer” system than FTE.   Jean Smith has an article on this topic:

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