Andrew's+Reflection


 * Andrew:**
 * I found this to be a very interesting project. At first we were all very unsure of exactly what we had to do but we stuck with it, did our readings and found our groove. On first deciding what to base our collection on, we had many ideas but it didn't take us long to focus in on the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin. This subject seemed to interest all of us in the group and was narrow enough for us to find some sort of focus. In organising our Policy Statement we were a bit flustered at first as so much of it was hard to apply to our situation, but once we started moulding it to our particular collection then the bits started to fall into place. The reference tools were also an area we had to spend some time reading around and deciding what exactly fell under that definition. We decided that there were many different sorts of reference tools and many fell across various categories like the one I chose; the // Bibliography of British and Irish History // works as a bibliography but also functions as an abstracting type of tool. All in all the process was very educational as we learned how to organise a collection but also how to work as a team in order to develop concise and effective ways of working. **