Balancing and evaluating a library collection

1. Evaluating your collection CALIBRATE A BALANCE! LIB 610 Collection Management Summer 2008

6. AN INSTRUMENT TO MEASURE BALANCE SOMETHING NOT HI NG ISSUE COUNTERISSUE

12. Creationism Evolution SOMETHING NOT HI NG

13. PRINT VS. ONLINE SOMETHING NOTHING Print Sources Online Sources http://www.hp-lexicon.org / http://www.mugglenet.com http://www.jkrowling.com/ The original novels

14. QUALITY VS. DEMAND SOMETHING NOT HI NG Diversity Homogeneity Everybody Anybody Nobody Somebody

15. SOMETHING FOR SOMEBODY Diversity SOMETHING Somebody Folklore : Folklore is the body of expressive culture , including tales , music , dance , legends , oral history , proverbs , jokes , popular beliefs , customs, material culture , and so forth, common to a particular population, comprising the traditions (including oral traditions ) of that culture, subculture , or group . ( Wikipedia ) Homogeneity NOTHING

17. SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY Diversity SOMETHING Homogeneity Everybody Quality literature, sometimes adaptations, or else original writing, with universal appeal and meaning for everyman and everywoman

20. NOTHING FOR ANYBODY Diversity NOTHING Anybody Recognizable stories, but unoriginal and shallow

22. NOTHING FOR NOBODY Homogeneity NOTHING Nobody Generic, unoriginal, impersonal, shallow