This course required students to work on various assignments pertaining to the understanding of developing and upkeep of a library collection.  Each week, students were required to respond to teacher’s prompts each week.  The course culminated in a final paper that examined the collection of a local library and deciding whether to keep, replace or weed items from the collection.

2A. Concepts and issues related to the lifecycle of recorded knowledge and information, from creation through various stages of use to disposition.
2B. Concepts, issues, and methods related to the acquisition and disposition of  resources, including evaluation, selection, purchasing, processing, storing, and deselection.
2C. Concepts, issues, and methods related to the management of various collections.
2D. Concepts, issues, and methods related to the maintenance of collections, including preservation and conservation.

Unit 1 Response– The first response was to look at a quote and explain whether or not I agreed or disagreed with the quote and why. 
Unit 2 Response– This response required me to look at the development of the collection that different communities. 
Unit 3A Response– For this response, I had to examine the policies for developing collections for different libraries provided by the instructor.
Unit 3B Response– Taking what we had learned from the previous response, I had to develop my own collection development policy for if I were in the position of a collection manager at a library in my career track.
Unit 4 Response– This assignment required that I look at various vendors and providers of materials for developing a collection.
Unit 5 Response– For this assignment, the instructor posed three different problems for students to examine and provide reactions to if they happened in our library.
Unit 6 Response– This response needed me to examine my local community and examine the data that comes from that community.
Unit 7 Response– This response required me to examine a piece of license of use contract and dissect the meaning of each term and what the contract means.
Collection Management Final– The final for this course required the students to take everything they had learned in the span of the class and apply it to a real collection at a local library.  The collection was analyzed and each item was determined if it should be kept, replaced or weeded.