[Genealib] Genealogy Collection Development Policies?

[moakes]

Our policy only addresses the scope of the collection housed
in our historical room:
 
Scope of the Collection

The Reuben Hoar Library will collect the following for the
Houghton Historical Room:

* materials dealing with the history of Littleton

* materials written or produced by Littleton residents about
the town of Littleton, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and
other New England locales.

* manuscripts and genealogies of families whose members have
lived in Littleton

* materials which may assist genealogy researchers determine
whether the subjects of their research lived in Littleton

* historic and contemporary maps of Littleton

* vital records of Massachusetts towns, especially those
surrounding Littleton

* microfilm of the Littleton Independent newspaper

* archives of the Reuben Hoar Library

* archives of the Friends of the Reuben Hoar Library

Other Massachusetts and New England history and genealogy
materials will be made available online or in
machine-readable form such as CD-ROM.

Gifts of artifacts, artwork and furniture for the Houghton
Historical Room are subject to the Library's gift policy.

 

How-to genealogy books are covered by the general collection
development policy and cover a much broader scope.

 

Hope this helps. 

Marnie Oakes, Director 
Reuben Hoar Library 
41 Shattuck Street 
Littleton, MA 01460 
Phone: 978-486-4046 
Fax: 978-952-2323 
moakes at mvlc.org 

 


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Beth Kielb
Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2009 11:12 AM
To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu
Subject: [Genealib] Genealogy Collection Development
Policies?



I am beginning the process of writing a collection
development policy for our genealogy and local history
library and would love to find some examples of policies
that are specific to these types of collections.   I've got
the ALA Guidelines for Beginning Genealogical Collections
and Services, but it is dated 1991.  I was wondering if
there is anything more current out there?

 

If you have a collection development policy that you would
be willing to share, or if you know of a good resource for
examples (on-line or print), I would love to hear from you.
Please feel free to contact me off-list.

  

Also, if anyone remembers if this topic has been discussed
on the list previously and remembers an approximate month
and year, please let me know.  I've gone through the list
archives for the last 6 months or so, but haven't seen
anything yet.

 

Thanks in advance for any assistance or information that you
can provide!

 

Beth Kielb

Library Director

 

SullivanMunce Cultural Center

205-225 West Hawthorne Street

Zionsville, IN  46077

(317)873-4900

BethK at sullivanmunce.org

 

YOUR DESTINATION FOR ART, HISTORY, & GENEALOGY!

Open Tuesday - Saturday  10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 

http://sullivanmunce.org/genealogy.html 

 

 

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