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I. COURSE FILE SUMMARY
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COURSE INFORMATION
College/Institute/Centre COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
Department
Program Title
INFORMATION STUDIES
BA
Semester\Year
Program Code
Course Title
Course Code
Course Type
Fall \ 2014-2015
English
Building & Development of
Collections
INFO 2111
Mandatory
Pre Requisites
Teaching Language Arabic & English
Credit Hours
Teaching Hours
2
Lecture ---2-- (Weekly)
Practical/Fieldwork ---1-- (Weekly)
--3--- Teaching Weeks
Number of students
Lecture
Practical/Fieldwork
Number of Student s dropped
Arabic
Total -3----
24
24
24
0
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
ENGLISH COURSE DESCRIPTION ARABIC COURSE DESCRIPTION
The course covers many of the basic themes that underpin the building of library collections and the development process, beginning with identifying the nature of the users’ needs, the development of a policy to build library Collections includes: materials selection, sources of supply, supply measures, followed by assessing the importance of groups and methods of evaluation
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COURSE AIM
The course aims to develop students' skills in building library collections, according to the formulation of scientific policy, emphasizing the importance of meeting the user's needs in the light of the physical capabilities of the library and achievement of the objective of balance in their collections
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
Produce graduates that have the ability to embrace and develop innovative approaches in the field of building and developing library collections
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COURSE INTENDED LEARNING OUTCOMES
Graduates will acquire the knowledge and skills to think critically in the formulation of scientific policies in the field of developing library collections, and Websites searching, organizing information, offering information services, using new tools to develop library collections and manage information institutions, and solving problems
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LECTURES SCHEDULE
WEEK TOPIC
1 Introduction to the aims of the schedule and its subtopics, requirements of teaching and the activities required
2 The concept of library collections - factors affecting the development of
Collectibles
3 Basic principles in the development of library collections - policy of collections development
4 Requirements of a policy of collections development - the importance , and objectives of collections development policy
5 Elements of collection development policy – QZ 1
6 Responsibility of library collections development - Standards of collections development
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7 Policy formulation and approval - Responsibility of policy formulation
8 Important issues in the development of groups (gifting, exchange and purification and exclusion and replace and repeaters, control and readers’ complaints, evaluation)
9 Acquisition and information sources - sources of acquisition - (QZ2)
10 Sources selection of books - Practical Applications
11 Sources selection periodicals - Practical Applications
12 Sources selection (booklets, theses, government Publications, Microforms and sound recordings)
13 Selection sources of information - general principles of selection -
Responsibility of selection
14 The role of Internet in the development of collections - Internet and cooperation between libraries - Internet and availability of texts - practical applications
15 Acquisition procedures - (QZ3)
16 Assess holdings - evaluation methods - a field visit to the acquisition section in the main library of Sultan Qaboos University
17 Final exam
7.
TEACHING STRATEGIES AND TECHNOLOGY APPLICATION
Teaching Method
•Use of lecture style
•Use of student self-learning style and discussion
•Use of practical applications in Selection of sources information and Acquisition procedures, using Publisher sites on the
Teaching Media
• Use of PowerPoint slides
• Accessing the internet for development of collections and availability of texts
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Practical applications through field visit to the acquisition section in the main library of Sultan Qaboos University
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Use of directories and catalogues of publishers Internet
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GRADING AND ASSESSMENT
POINTS
30%
10%
10%
50%
WRITTEN
Three QZ
Activities
Final exam
ORAL
Activities
TERM PAPER CONTINUOUS
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9.
COURSE RULES
Attendance
Attendance at class is mandatory. Course Instructors should keep attendance records. An
"absentee warning notice" will be issued if a student is absent for:
• More than 10% in courses with less than 75 total contact hours.
• More than 5% in courses with 75 or more total contact hours.
An "absentee withdrawal notice" will be issued and the student will be deemed to have withdrawn from the course with an 'FW' grade if a student is absent for:
• More than 20% in courses with less than 75 total contact hours.
• More than 15% in courses with 75 to 150 total contact hours.
• More than 10% of total contact hours for courses with more than 150 total contact hours.
10.
INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS
English Reference
DESCRIPTION
1- Frances C. Wilkinson(2003). The Complete Guide to
Text Series Library and Info).London: libraries unlimited
2- Vicki L. Gregory(2011). Collection Development and
Management for 21st Century Library Collections: An
Introduction. ALA Neal-Schuman, ISBN-13: 978-1-55570-
651-7 collection", Library Hi Tech, Vol. 18 Iss: 4, pp.335 – 361.
Arabic Reference
Books
تابتكملا ملع يف ةمدقم .ولك دمحم حابص و سيجرج دمحم مساج 1
1999 ,رصاعملا ركفلا راد :ءاعنص .تامولعملاو
. تابتكملا تاينتقم ةيمنتو تامولعملا رداصم . مساق تمشح 2
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1988 . بيرغ راد : ةرهاقلا
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تابتكملا يف ةينفلا تاءارجلإا . يغرولاا ميهاربإو حلاص نسح
1989
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. رئاشبلا راد : نامع . تامولعملا زكارمو.
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تاينتقم ةيمنتو ةرادإ يف ةثيدحلا تاهاجتلاا . يلوتم ناميران 4
2002 . ةينانبللا ةيرصملا رادلا : ةرهاقلا . تامولعملا زكارمو تابتكملا
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Lecture Notes/Handouts
Electronic Materials,
Web Sites etc.
3- Diane K. Kovacs, Angela Elkordy, (2000) "Collection development in cyberspace: building an electronic library http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/acquisition-collectiondevelopment/publications/gcdp-ar.pdf
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LECTURE NOTES/HAND-OUTS
EXAMS SAMPLE
A SAMPLE OF STUDENTS’ ANSWERS
A SAMPLE OF EXERCISES AND STUDENTS’ ANSWERS
A SAMPLE OF ASSIGNMENTS AND STUDENTS’ ACTIVITIES
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VIII. RESULTS AND GRADES
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