{"id":204,"date":"2026-02-16T03:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T03:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/?page_id=204"},"modified":"2026-02-22T02:34:58","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T02:34:58","slug":"skill-iii","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/skill-iii\/","title":{"rendered":"Collection Development"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ongoing professional development is essential for library workers. Through the Library of Virginia&#8217;s online learning academy, I have been able to watch webinars and take courses to advance my learning. I have focused specifically on learning more about developing and maintaining library collections that serve our community through purposeful, diverse, and relevant choices. <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40822\/2026\/02\/ICfL-Collection-Development-Basics.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">ICfL-Collection-Development-Basics<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40822\/2026\/02\/PLS-Collection-Development-Certificate-of-Completion-Cai-Ritenour.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">PLS-Collection-Development-Certificate-of-Completion-Cai-Ritenour<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Below is an exported list from Libby, a platform my library uses to provide eBooks to patrons. In one of my positions, I was tasked with putting together shopping carts of items for our Collection Services department to review and order. I felt that medical information was one of the most important resources we could provide, and selected the items listed below. I aimed to curate titles on a variety of conditions, especially conditions that patrons may prefer to research without checking out a book in public. <\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40822\/2026\/02\/Libby-Heallth-Tab.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Libby-Heallth-Tab<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ongoing professional development is essential for library workers. Through the Library of Virginia&#8217;s online learning academy, I have been able to watch webinars and take courses to advance my learning. I have focused specifically on learning more about developing and maintaining library collections that serve our community through purposeful, diverse, and relevant choices. Below is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31762,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":362,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/204\/revisions\/362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/murphyiritenour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}