Dear Colleagues,
On behalf of Kelsey Cameron, Chelsea Chiovelli, Danielle Deschamps, Marty
Grande-Sherbert, Sadaf Hakimizadeh, Andrew Ip, Olesya Komarnytska, Amy
Nowakowsky, Winston Pei, Nicole Pope, Reis Pouliot, Melissa Ramsey, Julia
Sieben, Maia Trotter, Grace Turnbull, Kat Voy, Dandi Wang, and Faye
Willauer, I am pleased to announce the publication of the openly licensed,
textbook *Contemporary Issues in Collection Management (CIiCM)
<https://openeducationalberta.ca/ciicm/>*. This Pressbooks OER is made
available thanks to Open Education Alberta and University of Alberta
Libraries.
*CIiCM* examines several different issues in collection management. Topics
covered include physical vs. digital collections; the impact of BookTok on
collections; challenges to 2SLGBTQ+ collections ; ebook licensing; ebook
pricing; accessible collections for users with physical disabilities;
accessible collections for users with invisible disabilities; "just in
time"/demand-driven acquisitions; climate change and collections and
research data collections.
*CIiCM* also demonstrates the power and potential of open education and
open pedagogy. Arising from a need to move beyond disposable assignments
(Wiley, 2013) and also in recognition of the Association of College and
Research Libraries’ *Framework for Information Literacy* *for Higher
Education* (ACRL, 2016), the book demonstrates the role students can play
as contributors to scholarly discussions and resources. *Contemporary
Issues in Collection Management* had its genesis in the in person class LIS
531 Collection Management from the Faculty of Education at the University
of Alberta in the Fall 2022 semester. While the Collections Management
class served as the spring board for the book, all of the authors here have
had to contribute their own voluntary labour outside of the classroom to
further developing their work for *CIiCM*.
Michael
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