Collection Development Internship · Daniela Solomon · Fall, 2005

November 26-December 1, 2005

Finalized posting on the Internet at the web address http://www.u.arizona.edu/~dsolomon.

November 19-25, 2005

Finishe the final report and handed it to my supervisor at the forth appointment on November 22, 2005.

November 12-18, 2005

Completed the list of works on cataloging.

November 5-11, 2005

Completed the open archive report.

October 29-November 4, 2005

Completed the collection development policies report.

October 22-28, 2005

October 26 it was the third meeting with my supervisor. We have disscused about the pathfinder and next steps to complete the internship.

October 15-21, 2005

Finished the pathfinder and sent it to my supervisor.

October 8-14, 2005

Start to create the pathfinder for the cataloging.

October 1-7, 2005

Finished evaluating documents submitted to DLIST. The results are presented in the following table:

pdf documents HTML documents Word documents Power Point documents Text Rich documents
Conference papers 53 25 2 3 2
Articles 149 35 12 - -
Presentations 22 2 6 46 -
Books/Books chapters 13 1 - - -
Preprints 9 - 2 - -
Reports 34 6 4 - 1
Posters 6 - - - -
Thesis 9 - 2 - -
Bibliographies 3 3 1 - -
Tutorials 3 5 - - -
Library Instruction materials - 2 1 - -
Guides 4 5 4 - -
Datasets 1 1 - - -
Others 9 6 2 - -

September 24-30, 2005

On September 29 I had the second meeting with my site supervisor. She approved the DLIST Collection Development Policy and as a result, the DLIST Collection Development Policy has been posted on the Internet. Some links within the policy are not yet active. I continued evaluating documents submitted to DLIST. I have started to create the pathfinder for Cataloging.

September 17-23, 2005

The Internship Plan and Progress websites have been posted on the Internet. I sent to my site supervisor a first draft of the collection development policy for DLIST. I have started to evaluate the documents that are already submitted to DLIST relative to the policy I have developed.

September 10-16, 2005

I have studied about the collection development process and collection development policies. I read about the collection development policies components and found what the differences between the collection development policies for libraries, digital libraries, and open archive repositories are. I have started to elaborate the collection development policy for DLIST. I have started to develop the websites that will present my research.

September 6, 2005

First meeting with the site supervisor. We have decided on the steps I need to follow to fulfill the goals of my internship plan. We have discussed about the appropriateness of using “collection development” for open archive repositories case, and we stressed the importance of having clear copyright status for any document submitted.

September 1-9, 2005

Continue reading the collected materials; have started evaluation and organization of these materials, have started to organize the web pages for this project.

August 22- 31, 2005

Collecting materials on the Internet related to OAI, collection development policies, cataloging. Start reading these materials.

Created by Daniela Solomon
Fall, 2005