[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Evergreen Collection Development

[arhyno at uwindsor.ca]

Hi Dan,

Yes, a collaborative model of collection development should be possible, 
there is a very granular user permission system and it would be great if 
this process could have the option for wider participation. It does mean 
that there also needs to be options to keep some of the financial 
information confidential, but I think this can be done as well. OFBiz's 
notion of a catalog(ue) is weak compared to a library's, but as a staging 
area for orders, some of the functionality, like extensive lists and 
budget scenarios, are very useful.

In a university situation, it would be ideal to reach out to students as 
well, especially undergraduates. That's always been the tricky part I have 
seen in collaborative faculty models for collection development, there are 
big segments of the campus population that can get left behind. I have 
also wondered how e-books fit into this mix, I have always done collection 
development for computer science departments, and have seen O'Reilly's 
safari service come to be a huge part of the collection. In safari, you 
rent digital content based on "slots", and have a fairly frequent option 
to rotate the titles. I don't know if it's indicative of other e-book 
services, but I am really interested in how options like safari should 
interact with the ILS. For example, would it be worth mapping safari's 
slot system into a desiderata setup?

It strikes me that any acq/ser system should be far more aware of digital 
content than its brethren in the commercial world. The solutions in the 
ILS marketplace have largely been to move this piece into ERM systems, but 
it seems appropriate to deal with all of the library's content in one 
place.

art
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