by John D. Berry
I’ve been musing over collection development this year. Our collection development has been frozen in time since the Third World Strike in 1968/69. It’s never gone up, but it hasn’t gone away.
In the interim the Native Librarians, responsible for the Native American Studies Collection at U.C. Berkeley, have valiantly built our collection. This is just our collection in the Ethnic Studies Library, not the Bancroft or the Main Library, as we are an “Affiliate Library.” All that generally means is, we don’t get their money, but they can’t tell us what is important either. In the 40+ years since, we have developed a world class collection.
