Hagerty Library: Social Media Collection 1 Bazilus, Brown, and Gross Collection Management Catherine Collins Info 665, Winter 2011 W. W. Hagerty Library Social Media Collection We certify that: • This paper/project/exam is entirely our own work. • We have not quoted the words of any other person from a printed source or a website without indicating what has been quoted and providing an appropriate citation. • We have not submitted this paper/project to satisfy the requirements of any other course. Your Signature’s: Meridith Bazilus, Jonyce Brown and James Gross Date: February 20, 2011
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Hagerty Library: Social Media Collection 1
Bazilus, Brown, and Gross
Collection Management
Catherine Collins Info 665, Winter 2011
W. W. Hagerty Library
Social Media Collection We certify that:
• This paper/project/exam is entirely our own work.
• We have not quoted the words of any other person from a printed source or a website without indicating what has been quoted and providing an appropriate citation.
• We have not submitted this paper/project to satisfy the requirements of any other course. Your Signature’s: Meridith Bazilus, Jonyce Brown and James Gross Date: February 20, 2011
Hagerty Library: Social Media Collection 2
Table of Contents
Library Information: Page 3
Service Community: Page 3-4
Selection Criteria: Page 4
Material Selection: Page 5-15
Evaluation of Selection Aids: Page 15-16
Selecting Retrospective Materials: Page 16-19
Material Budget: Page 19-20
Lessons Learned: Page 21
Group Strategies and Responsibilities: Page 22-23
References: Page 24
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Library Information
The W. W. Hagerty Library “is a continually evolving, innovative organization dedicated to the
provision of services, instruction, collections, technology and facilities to meet the information and
information-related needs of the Drexel community” (Objectives, 2006, p. 5). The main mission of the
Library is to keep the collection current, which is also the most important objective expressed in the
collection development policy.
Service Community
The Library’s service community consists of undergraduate and graduate students, faculty,
staff and members of the local community. The service community includes both internal and external
users. The internal users are undergraduate and graduate students, and members of the Library staff. The
external users consist of undergraduate and postgraduate students, and faculty. The members of the
groups served generally span from eighteen years old to over the age of sixty-five. The Library has a
Dean of Libraries, Library Director, and Library Board. The staff includes approximately twenty-four
full-time professional librarians, thirty-two support staff, and ten students who assist via work-study
programs (Pennsylvania, 2008).
The Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) statistics for the year 2009 reports
14,749 full-time students, 6,788 part-time students (Varvel, 2010, p. 66). The targeted population for the
proposed who will benefit from collection development in the area of social media will primarily be the
University’s external users. These people are engaged in academic research and study in the field of social
media. The Library is tasked with supporting the University’s educational goals by ensuring that relevant
and current academic materials are available to support Drexel’s course offerings and degree programs.
Faculty, in conjunction with library staff, verify that pertinent course materials are either subscribed to,
placed on reserve, or purchased to support related classroom needs. Community initiatives and scholarly
pursuits must also be supported by collection development. The external user group has specific needs for
materials related to the study of social media. These needs include having access to textual, audio, and
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video materials which support the courses and degrees offered by the University on this subject.
Undergraduate and graduate users need access to relevant social media materials in order to satisfy course
requirements. Faculty users need access to the subject materials to facilitate teaching as identified by the
syllabi, as well as professional publishing needs as identified by the University.
Selection Criteria
Hagerty Library uses the following criteria to guide selection decisions: subject/content,
appropriateness, authoritativeness, author or publisher reputation, binding, currency/up-to-date, faculty
publications, historical value, price, relevance to the curriculum, student & faculty needs & requests, and
published reviews. We used the following criteria to help identify social media materials (as utilized for
educational and academic purposes) by our user group:
1. Relevance to the curriculum: Drexel assigns class readings based on selected course curriculum.
Course curriculum is based on materials chosen by faculty members for use in teaching coursework. A
search was conducted on resources assigned by Drexel faculty for coursework.
2. Subject/Content: Social media is a subject which is taught as part of the Drexel University
curriculum. This subject was researched based on existing holdings at Hagerty Library, and expanded to
similar resources.
3. Format/binding: Social media materials exist within multiple formats. We searched for
a. This DVD material discusses impacts to teacher and student interactions for
educational delivery and receipt of knowledge. Changes in class physical vs. virtual
educational interactions are assessed along with student’s response to learning.
b. The selection criteria used were subject and content. This DVD provides the benefit of
viewable interactions studied regarding social interactions and the transfer of
knowledge in educational settings. Selection aid Worldcat was used for its online
bibliographic audio visual lists at website http://www.worldcat.org
20.Social Science Research Council (U.S.). (2007). Structures of participation
in digital culture. New York: Social Science Research Council, print.
a. This is a collection of sixteen essays to give the reader an insightful look at
participation in digital culture. The scope of this collection is focused on investigating
trajectories of participation occurring in contemporary media saturated environments.
b. This resource is relevant as it is current in regard to the publication date. It has relevance
to the subject, and is referenced in a published book review.
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c. “The accounts that run through this volume, whether they are framed as empirical
research or reflective observation, demonstrate a very clear challenge to discourses that
construct the user as passive and disengaged…many of the issues raised are even more
crucial now than when the research was conducted.” Reviewed by Brady Roberts,
International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Society, Retrieved from:
Communications & Mass Media Database. Also located in Worldcat.
Evaluation of Selection Aids
Our group utilized a number of different selection aids for researching the topic of social media.
For the format of audio-visual materials, the American Library Association Video Librarian website,
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/vrt/aboutvrt/vrtwelcome.cfm selection aid was helpful as it led to
other reliable professional or scholarly selection aids, such as the Educational Media Review Online
(EMRO) website. This media website, located at: http://www.emro.lib.buffalo.edu/emro/about.asp
provided scholarly peer reviews of audio visual materials from academic resources throughout the
United States and Canada.
Another useful website was a video distributor site, Films for the Humanities & Sciences (FFH&S),
located at: http://ffh.films.com. This website is a media content provider of media for higher
education. It provides academic content for educators. It was a helpful selection aid due to its
database of subject specific audio-visual clips.
For textual formats, the bibliographic database, Worldcat, located at: http://www.worldcat.org offered
an extensive selection of current and historical academic materials to choose from. Another useful
database was the Communications & Mass Media Database. This database was useful for locating
subject specific materials. The Google search engine, www.google.com was useful for general topical
as well as subject specific academia syllabi.
For electronic resources, we utilized, among other resources, the LMXAC online public catalog. It is
located at: http://librarycatalog.lmxac.org/uhtbin/cgisirsi/x/x/0/57/49?user_id=MDSXWEB.
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This database features the “I-Bistro catalog” and is a part of Library Systems and Services, Inc.
(LSSI). The Hagerty Library collection did not include many of e-books and audio-books that the
LMXAC catalog has. Blogs and social media websites were also very helpful in choosing electronic
materials because they offer the most current resources and information that pioneers in the field are
talking about.
In regard to the most useful selection aids, our group found that it utilized a combination of
selection aids for this project. Neverless, the most useful audio-video selection aid was the distributor
website, http://ffh.films.com, which provided clips to review audio visual performance, and time
period considerations for the scenes captured on the video. The most useful textual selection aid was
Worldcat, located at: http://www.worldcat.org.
Selecting Retrospective Materials
The selection process used for locating retrospective materials was the same as the one used to
find current materials, with the exception that the dates were modified when conducting research.
Retrospective materials were evaluated for historical perspectives on social media rather than current
educational needs. The selection process for monograph materials began by first identifying the subject
matter and then screening for older published dates. Locating materials which were not already owned by
the Hagerty Library was difficult. Published bibliographies as well as citation analysis for material
searches made the process easier. The selection aids used were Worldcat, subject databases
(Communications & Mass Media), subject bibliographies, subject specific academic syllabi.
1. Blanchard, M., (Ed.) (1998) History of the mass media in the United States: an encyclopedia.
Dearborn: Fitzroy.
a. This volume covers the mass media, beginning in 1690 and ending in 1990. b. This resource is still relevant as it is covers a historical mass media period of time in
the United States, it has relevance to the subject, and was referenced in a published
book review.
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c. Selection aid recommendation: “Superb illustrations and well-chosen
photographs…This work is recommended for larger public and academic libraries.” Reviewed by
Mary Ellen Quinn in “The Booklist.” Retrieved from: Communications & Mass Media Database.
Also located in Worldcat.
2. Films Media Group, (1997) Mass Media in Society. Item # BVL8521 retrieved from: