Uncommon Collections

Please mark your calendars for our April professional development webinar! Come learn about non-traditional objects in library collections and how to manage them. Does your library have an uncommon collection? We’d love to hear about it!


Uncommon Collections
In this presentation, Valerie Moore from Prairie State College and Thomas Mantzakides from Morton College will cover their Library’s uncommon collections, some circulating, and some not. When people think of a library, they think of books, but the bulk of our library collections are eResources. They definitely don’t think of objects. However, it has become common for public libraries to lend things. A symposium on play in the academy, and a second conference on public library collections of things got Valerie thinking about how she could bring more play and games to the PSC Library. Thomas will cover the "Library of Things" collection at Morton College - why certain items were added to the collection, lending policies, and how best to promote and possibly expand the collection.


Thursday, April 10 @ 10 am
Join here: https://meet.google.com/fkx-cqvf-rpm?authuser=0&hs=122