{"id":57153,"date":"2025-07-29T13:25:45","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/?p=57153"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:25:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T19:25:46","slug":"lift-selection-and-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/self-paced-courses\/lift-selection-and-acquisitions","title":{"rendered":"LiFT: Selection and Acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Overview:<\/strong><br>In this course, you&#8217;ll learn how libraries select and acquire materials that reflect their foundational statements and collection policies. You&#8217;ll also learn how libraries consider community needs when building a collection to ensure it\u2019s balanced and well-developed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/learn.webjunction.org\/enrol\/index.php?id=812\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/learn.webjunction.org\/enrol\/index.php?id=812\">Access the course<\/a>. (Requires free registration to WebJunction)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1753815938645_37\"><strong>Learning objectives:<br><\/strong>By the end of this course, learners will be able to:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul id=\"yui_3_18_1_1_1753815938645_39\" class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Recognize the qualities of a well-developed and balanced collection<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Describe how libraries select and acquire materials for their collections<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Explain your library\u2019s selection criteria and acquisitions policies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Apply a library&#8217;s selection criteria to identify items that would be a good fit for its collection<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Developed by<strong>:<\/strong>\u00a0WebJunction and the Idaho Commission for Libraries<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overview:In this course, you&#8217;ll learn how libraries select and acquire materials that reflect their foundational statements and collection policies. You&#8217;ll also learn how libraries consider community needs when building a collection to ensure it\u2019s balanced and well-developed. Access the course. (Requires free registration to WebJunction) Learning objectives:By the end of this course, learners will be &#8230; <a title=\"LiFT: Selection and Acquisitions\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/self-paced-courses\/lift-selection-and-acquisitions\" aria-label=\"Read more about LiFT: Selection and Acquisitions\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":50996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[437,65,436],"class_list":["post-57153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-self-paced-courses","tag-acquisitions","tag-collection-management","tag-selection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox.aclin.org\/test\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}