Collection Priorities
There are currently five collection priorities:
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General Selection Criteria
The following criteria will be used in making selection decisions for materials available in the Open Bookshelf collection:
- Relevance of material to the DPLA Exchange catalog/offerings
- Relevance to a public library audience
- Critical review or quality of the material content
- Listing in standard bibliographies and guides
- Reputation or authoritativeness of the publisher
- Reputation or authoritativeness of the author
- Potential for use or known need
- Strength or weakness of the collection in particular areas
- Usefulness with respect to other materials in the collection, including the representation of all sides of controversial issues
- Currency of the material
- Availability in EPUB format
- Availability of another open edition or version in the Exchange
Special Selection Criteria
- Public domain/classics
- Widely held and/or widely circulated in public libraries
- Commonly assigned in curriculum
- Inclusion in lists, subject guides
- Textbooks
- Authoritative publisher
- Peer-reviewed
- Does not require other materials to go with it (i.e. a companion guide or database that a library user could not reasonably access)
- EPUB format
- Commonly assigned subjects that may also interest a public library audience
- Contemporary fiction and nonfiction
- Non-fiction is peer reviewed
- Subject is timely and relevant
- Children’s books/non-English
- Trusted publisher/content creator
- Timely and appealing to young audience
- Cultural heritage