Collection Development
The purpose of this page is to serve as a base for all work related to the BHL Collections Committee.
Collections Committee Members:
Bianca Crowley (BHL) | Michael Cook (Cornell), Joe deVeer (MCZ), Barbara Ferry (SIL), Susan Lynch (NYBG), Allie Newman (SIL), Matt Person (MBLWHOI), Diane Rielinger (HUH), Connie Rinaldo (MCZ), Trish Rose-Sandler (MBG), Leora Siegel (CBG), Gil Taylor (SIL), Kelli Trei (UIUC), Judy Warnement (HUH), Don Wheeler (NYBG)
(As needed: Christine Giannoni (Field))
Charge
The BHL Collections Committee is responsible for the management and development of the BHL collection including all issues related to the selection, prioritization, acquisition, curation and deaccessioning of content, as well as supporting BHL outreach activities relevant to collection development issues. The Committee may oversee the reuse or re-packaging of selected content, or a subset of the collection, in creative and novel ways. The Committee is open to all BHL member and affiliate staff.
Meetings & Projects
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Current | 2014 & prior
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 | | Collection Analysis |
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 | | Digitization Project Nomination Form |
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 | | Collection quality |
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 | | Outreach Support |
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see also BHL-E
Collections Policy Discussion
Collections Visual Review
collections dartboard lcsh.ppt -- Tom's revision
BHL_CollectionsTopics.pptx
BHL_CollectionsTopics.xls
Please select from the following pages to add your comments and feedback
General Feedback
- LCSH has been used as a starting point to obtain terms for the collections development visual, but as BHL is an increasingly global collection, we need to explore other sources of terms to break out from the LC box. Do you have any suggestions?
- [MP] Abstracting databases are one place to find terms beyond LCSH. At face value the NLM's MESH database being medical, maybe no- but it is extremely broad, and it may be one tool to assist us as well.
- Does the visual work? Its intent is to provide a quick and dirty overview of BHL collections concentrations – is this being accomplished?
- [MP] Any time you take a list and give it another dimension it help explain what you are trying to do adds value to your list, and leads to other ways of seening things -and yes, your visuals are doing this.
- One subject in particular, Paleontology, has been brought up as a possible “core” term rather than its current status as a “supporting” term. If scanning funds are scarce, would a Paleo book be selected over any of the books related to core terms Collection+Development+Core+Topics for example? Not an easy yes/no, but something to consider. I know at one point BHL scanning funds did not support paleo but that seems to not be so strict anymore, correct?
- [MP] As for Paleontology, during the stacks selection process, I let go of Paleontology, but I recall occasionally selecting serials titles as the content was past as well as living organism related.
- - Mar 4, 2010What we were told is that MacArthur/Sloan money from EOL to BHL was not supposed to be used for paleontology. Since we had institutional money, we did scan paleontology with MCZ's permission.
Universe of Biodiversity Literature
Domain biodiversity lit-est-ver2.xlsx
core-literature estimate-vs3.docx
Bianca's Collections Stats Updates
Collections Update Q1 2010
Collections Wiki Pages
Collections and Selections
Collections Debate
Collections Analysis
Collection Scanning Selections
ConnieR Mar 4, 2010What we were told is that MacArthur/Sloan money from EOL to BHL was not supposed to be used for paleontology. Since we had institutional money, we did scan paleontology with MCZ's permission.