Collection+Development+Collaboration

The Librarians of Carteret County Schools have taken the initiative to participate in a self study for the purpose of developing and/or updating their schools' collection development plans. On this page we will share ideas and strategies to help each other examine our collections and make decisions about how to improve what we have.

**Should we develop some kind of log to keep track of time spent working on the project?

A few ideas I have already:
 * 1) Survey our staffs to get their perspective [the collection development (CD) plan is suppose to be a collaborative effort with our school staff].
 * 2) collection analysis from Follett
 * 3) use collection mapping to look closely at our individual collections
 * 4) share variety of CD plans
 * 5) align curriculum w/ Dewey ???

I just read this blog post on collection development - it offer suggested resources and tips. = **[|Weeding Tips: The Importance of a Collection-Development Plan]. by** Vnuk, Rebecca  =