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Collection development as a political process: a case from Norway Jannicke Røgler, Buskerud County Library 9th Northumbria Conference Parallel Session 4 – Quality Strand - Behavioural Aspects
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Title: Collection Development as a political process: a case from Norway.Paper at the 9th Northumbria Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries & Infomration Services
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Collection development as a political process: a case from Norway
Jannicke Røgler, Buskerud County Library9th Northumbria Conference
Parallel Session 4 – Quality Strand - Behavioural Aspects
The Buskerud County Library Serving:
21 Public Libraries 18 Upper Secondary Schools 300 000 inhabitants
Library modernization,emphasising on massiveweeding of collections
”The Buskerud bandits” Bandits since 2007 Focus on collection development From local initiativ to national impact Extensive use of social media
Effects
Library of the Year Elected library of the year 2010 Proud local politicians High profile
Political support
Support from all political parties in Buskerud Close contact with the politicians
Politicians presenting the award
Increased use of statistics
Turnover rate IFLA's ”Global statistics for advocacy” SAMSTAT Community of
statistics
Focus on physical space
National demand
A one day course in collection development has been held in 9 out of 19 Counties
County Libraries all over Norway are facing increased demand for collection development services
National Media Coverage The Doctrine of airiness part I and II Article in the national newspaper ”Dagbladet”
about Drammen and city development
Crammed on the shelves?
Communities of weeding
Weeding together with other librarians give maximum learning effect
Etienne Wenger define Communities of practice as:
«... groups of people who share a concern or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better as they interact regularly».
Weeding Statistics
Decrease in book collections
The Purchasing Programme for Contemporary Fiction and Non-fiction
Since 1965 a programme for the public support of contemporary fiction and non-fiction
1 000 copies of about 200 different titles for adult readers
1550 copies of 110 titles for young people
From 1991 bought about 50 Norwegian translations of fiction originally published abroad
15 titles of non-fiction written for young people
Accessions of books from the Purchasing Programme
Conclusion
This case show that a local initiativ can achieve national impact
Less focus on artifacts and more on library space, services and how we best can assist our members
Attention from outside the library world Continous work and emphasis over time give
the best result
Thank you!
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