Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management

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CFP: Patron-Initiated Collection Development (special issue of
Collection Management)

Call For Papers: Special Issue of Collection Management

Patron-Initiated Collection Development: Current Successes and Future
Directions

To be published in v. 35, no. 3/4 of Collection Management in 2010.
Seeking article proposals from colleagues at all kinds of libraries
(all sizes of academic libraries, public libraries, and international
libraries) about patron-initiated collection development, such as:

● interlibrary loan book purchase programs
● experiences with allowing patron use or selection to drive
acquisition of electronic books
● consortial collection development plans with strong patron-driven
acquisitions elements
● other innovative patron-initiated selection activities for materials
in a variety of formats
● implications for the future roles of collection librarians in an
environment of increased user-driven Acquisitions
● user discovery of patron-initiated collection development plans

The editors are particularly interested in proposals for articles that
will that include evaluation/assessment/analysis.

Background

The special issue editors are members of the team that published the
following article:

Anderson, Kristine J., Robert S. Freeman, Jean-Pierre V. M. Herubel,
Lawrence J. Mykytiuk, Judith M. Nixon, and Suzanne M. Ward. 2002.
“Buy, Don’t Borrow: Bibliographers’ Analysis of
Academic Library Collection Development through Interlibrary Loan
Requests.” Collection
Management, 27(3/4): 1-11.

This article analyzed six subject areas for books purchased instead of
borrowed as the result of interlibrary loan requests in 2000-2001. Now
that ILL book purchases have been standard procedure at the Purdue
University Libraries for ten years, the authors and their colleagues
will
analyze this decade’s worth of information to explore the following
topics in a series of four articles:

● Revisit the initial study by comparing earlier findings with more
recent data
● Analyze the ILL book purchase program in relation to scientific/
technical/medical (STM) titles ● Conduct in-depth statistical analysis
across a decade of data, looking at issues such as patron status,
subject areas as indicated by call number, subsequent circulation,
comparison with similar subject area books acquired through
traditional means, etc.
● Position paper on new roles for collection librarians. As user-
initiated collection development frees time and effort from
traditional collection duties and responsibilities, how will academic
librarians develop and nurture emerging objectives and prerogatives,
e.g. teaching, research?

The accepted articles from colleagues at other institutions will
complement the four listed above.
Deadlines

November 13, 2009: Submit an abstract (maximum of one page) with the
title and your proposed article idea. Your full contact information
may appear on a separate page, but please include your name,
institution, and email address on the abstract page.

December 4, 2009: The editors will notify authors whether their
proposals have been accepted.

February 28, 2010: Submit completed article (10-25 double spaced
pages).

Please submit abstracts and address correspondence to Judy Nixon
( jni...@purdue.edu) with this subject line: CM article proposal.