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ABLE 2 - Collection Development Policy

Please note that this course will be retired, and no longer available for enrollment on July 28, 2025, when it will be replaced by a new program of courses called LiFT: Library Foundational Training. Anyone enrolled by that date will continue to have access to the course until August 29, 2025.

Format: Self-paced Course
Developed by: the Idaho Commission for Libraries
Length: 1.5 hours

Course Objectives
In this unit, you will learn:

  • Purpose of a collection development policy
  • Elements of a collection development policy
  • How to set collection goals
  • Steps in writing a collection development policy
  • Relationship of your collection development policy and collection development activities

Important Notes:

1) The Certificate of Completion for this course is provided by the Idaho Commission for Libraries.

2) User registration data for all ABLE courses is provided to the Idaho Commission for Libraries so they can track user progress.

Category: Collection Development Sequence

Web Archiving for Public Libraries

self pacedFormat: Self-paced Course
Developed by: Internet Archive with funding from Institute of Museum and Library Services 
Length: 2 hours

As more and more local news, history and activity is available only on the web, and no longer published to traditional physical media, public libraries are increasingly archiving locally generated or relevant websites and web content that would not otherwise be preserved.

This self-paced course is adapted from training materials created for the Community Webs project, an Institute of Museum and Library Services -funded program created by Internet Archive to enable public libraries to build collections of historically-valuable, web published materials documenting their local communities.  

This course covers:

  • A basic overview of web archiving 
  • Why web archiving is important generally
  • Why web archiving is important for public libraries
  • Incorporating web archiving into your library's collection development policy
  • Identifying and selecting online content for archiving
  • Selecting web archiving tools that fit your library's needs
  • The importance of community engagement to the success of your library's web archiving program
  • How to effectively sustain your web archiving

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Category: Collections management