The Challenges of Digital Collection Development

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COVID-19 has made it clear that it is essential for New Canaan High School to provide digital access to library resources. Fortunately, we have been carefully curating our digital collection since 2003. 

At this point, we own 3,840 ebooks, 800 of which are fiction titles, and we also own 533 audiobooks. 

Over the years, we have heard parents, teachers, and even some students tell us that they prefer reading in print, yet we continued to develop a digital collection knowing full well that someday, we would need a digital collection and that when that day happened, we would need it all at once. We anticipated that that paradigm shift would be driven by student need and/or interest. We never imagined that it would be a global pandemic!

Over the past few weeks, we have been posting flyers throughout the building that direct students to titles in our digital collection. Here are a few examples:

Once students hover their phone camera over a flyer, they will be prompted to open a link that appears across the top of their screen. Then all they need to do is click the link and sign in to open the digital book. Each flyer is a slide i a deck. The complete deck follows. 

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