Floating Collections: Building on Your Patron's Horizons

Course Objectives:

What are the benefits of a floating collection? What is involved and the what is the impact on the role of Reader's Advisor and patron expectations. This session covers the answers to these questions and lays out the steps involved in starting a floating collection. The many variables that need to be considered, how to sell this new collection concept to both staff and the public, and all the excitement floating collections generate will also be discussed.

Anyone with responsibilities for collection development will find this session of interest.