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Collection Development and Materials Selection Policy
Foreign Language Books The Library maintains a small collection of titles in French, German, Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Italian, Vietnamese, and several other languages. The collection consists of popular fiction and nonfiction and is primarily intended for the recreational reading of patrons fluent in the languages represented, either non-native speakers of English or students and teachers of foreign language. The collection is maintained as a separate browsing collection of titles, arranged in Dewey number order by language. Influencing Factors Morton Grove has a diverse ethnic community, many of whom are recent immigrants from Russia, Korea, China, India and the Philippines. Publishers' catalogs; standard selection tools such as Booklist, which evaluate and recommend foreign language materials; and local foreign language bookstores are utilized in the selection of materials. Purchase of a variety of titles rather than multiple copies is preferred. Complementing various languages in the book collection are music CDs and audiocassettes, instructional audiovisual materials on foreign languages, periodicals, and videocassettes. Among the foreign language materials, Korean materials comprise the largest concentration of materials in all formats because of grant monies received in 1990-1991. Weeding should be done annually based on the physical condition of the title, the current need for materials in the particular language, and on circulation statistics for that title. Russian, Polish and three of the major languages of India - Gujarati, Hindi, and Urdu - should be emphasized in future development of the collection in order to remain responsive to the changing ethnic nature of the community. Other languages will remain stable and some will be eliminated completely to provide room for growth in the above languages. The Korean collection is adequate to support current demand; consequently, future growth should take place in other needed languages. The direction the foreign language collection will take will be determined to a large extent by a cooperative collection development project being undertaken by several north suburban libraries in 1992. |
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