[Genealib] General Collection for Small Public Library

[Barbara Hill]

A book entitled "Library Service for Genealogists" by J. Carlyle Parker 
(Gale Research Company, 1981) has a chapter on collection development, with 
a list of recommended titles for ALL libraries beginning on page 6, and 
"Additional Titles for Medium-Sized Libraries" beginning on page 8.  Many 
of the recommended basic titles are still very inexpensive.  You could 
borrow the book on ILL, photocopy the pages, and ask your local 
genealogical society to go over the titles and determine which works have 
since been updated or superseded.  At the same time, it would give them 
ideas for other recommendations.

Barbara Hill


At 10:02 AM 7/13/2006, you wrote:
>Hello, All,
>
>I’ve been the director of a small public library in Iowa for one year now, 
>and I’ve been lurking on the edge of this list for a short time.  I wonder 
>if you could give me suggestions for a core collection appropriate to a 
>small library?  So that you will have an idea of our size: our card holder 
>count is approximately 8,500 with a town population of about 5,600, and we 
>have around 45,000 items in our collection.
>
>We currently offer our local newspaper on microfilm with older editions 
>bound, as well as local histories, some personal genealogies that have 
>been donated and a few nationally published titles but many of these go 
>back to the 1980s.
>
>Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!!
>
>Jet Kofoot
>
>Mrs. Jet Kofoot, Director
>Algona Public Library
>210 N Phillips
>Algona, IA. 50511
>(515) 295-5476
>jkofoot at netamumail.com
>
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