• 1: Governance
• 2: Financial Management
• 3: Physical Plant
• 4: Planning & Personnel
• 5: Collections & Library Services

• Governance
• Financial Management
• Physical Plant
• Planning
• Human Resources
• Friends Groups
• Collection Management
• Intellectual Freedom
• Library Services
• Continuing Education
• Sample Policies
• Technology
• All Topics

• About ABLE
• Feedback
• Trainer Biographies

Final Documents

All documents in MS Word format unless otherwise indicated. Use of this material must include credit to the ABLE Project, Nioga Library System.

Module 5: Collections & Library Services

• Overview of Modules 4 & 5
• Table of Contents

• Library Services - Overview
  1. Interlibrary Loan
  2. Hints for Successful Booklists
  3. Tips for Teen Programming
  4. Sample Policies
  5. Library Services – Web Resources
  6. Services and Collections – Print Resources

• Collection Development - Overview
  1. Library Board & Library Policies
  2. Elements of a Collection Development Policy (including Sample Policies from NYLA Intellectual Freedom Manual p.19-22)
  3. Selection Criteria
  4. Library Boards, Budgets, and Finance
  5. Roadblocks to Weeding
  6. MUSTIE Weeding Criteria (CREW Method)
  7. What the Public, the Board, & Your Staff Need to Know about Weeding
  8. How to Read a MARC Record (also in PDF)
  9. Organization and Description of Materials
  10. Collection Management – Web Resources

• Intellectual Freedom - Overview
  *Available in NYLA's Intellectual Freedom Manual; Items with (+) at end should be reproduced for workshop handouts.

  *Self-Censorship Checklist (NYLA Intellectual Freedom Manual, p.8) (+)
  1. Challenged Books and Other Materials FAQ
  *When the Censor Comes (NYLA Intellectual Freedom Manual, p. 9-10) (+)
  *Sample Policies: Intellectual Freedom (NYLA Intellectual Freedom Manual, p. 17-22)
  2. Library Board & Intellectual Freedom, Censorship and Privacy
  3. Statements Affirming Intellectual Freedom
  4. Laws Relevant to Intellectual Freedom
  *Intellectual Freedom Checklist (NYLA Intellectual Freedom Manual, p. 6-7) (+)
  5. Intellectual Freedom – Web Resources

Also refer to Teaching Aid #1 under Collection Management: Library Board and Library Policies.

• Talking Points: Organization and Description of Materials
  • How to Read a MARC Record (MS Publisher)
  • How to Read a MARC Record (PDF)

• Talking Points
  • Circulation Management
  • Interlibrary Loan
  • Organization of Materials

• PowerPoint Presentations
  • Library Services (PPT)
  • Collection Management (PPT)
  • Intellectual Freedom (PPT)

• Lecture Notes
  • Library Services
  • Collection Management
  • Intellectual Freedom

• Evaluations
  • Library Services
  • Collection Development
  • Intellectual Freedom

• Resources
  • Collection Management
  • Intellectual Freedom
  • Library Services
  • Sample Policies
  • Services & Collections - Print Resources
    

Training Session Scenes

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