Internet use to perform collection development among independent school librarians in the Pacific Northwest.

摘要

Collection development encompasses the professional activities of needs assessment, policy development, evaluation, selection, acquisition, and collection maintenance, which involves the preservation and weeding of resources. Internet tools, services, or resources are available to assist librarians in performing these collection development activities. This study examined the use of the Internet for collection development among independent school librarians in the Pacific Northwest.; The purpose of the study was to explore the extent of Internet use; the types of Internet tools, services, or resources used; the manner in which these resources are used; and the reasons for using or not using the Internet to perform collection development activities. Case study methodology was applied to investigate Internet use. A survey was designed in order to collect relevant data.; The major conclusions were that the independent school librarians who participated in the study used the Internet to some degree for all collection development activities and that most of these librarians used both Internet resources and more traditional materials for evaluation and selection. These librarians used various Internet resources which served as sources of information. Obstacles such as lack of librarian training, teacher interest, and administrative support minimized, and also sometimes prevented, the librarians' use of the Internet to perform collection development activities. This was also the case for one particular collection development activity, the selection of Internet resources.