5.A.2 The institution’s core collection and related information resources are sufficient to support the curriculum.
Lead Bloggers: George/Alan/Dave
What is the size of the core collection? (What is on our shelves)
How does the size of our collection compare to other 2 year schools in Montana or the region?
Is there a program that is underrepresented in the print or electronic collection?
Our current core collection is right under 7,000 hard copies of books, journals, and media. This compares unfavorably to every other 2 year school in Montana. As of Fall 2007 we had a collection of 6,200 volumes, Missoula COT had a collection of over 17,000 texts even with the main UM – Missoula campus just miles away. Our closest COT for demographics, mission, size, and location, MSU-Great Falls had nearly 10,000 hard copies texts. forty percent larger than our collection. We fell the statistics speak for them shelves; we are extremely anemic in a hard text collection.
Our electronic collection piggy backs on UM-Missoula so it appears to be adequate. With the shortage of texts some departments are no doubt ‘short’ on quickly available resources. In particular, English or any related literature class. True, we have good electronic sources and can obtain hard texts from our sister university libraries, but this is not as practical, fast, or tangible as an available hard copy at the students immediate use.
We need more books.
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Here are some answers to the questions from the meeting yesterday about the size of our collection.
In May 2008 we had 6747 books/dvds/videos and I know we have added over 800 volumes this year, so we are probably at 7600 volumes now.
We receive 96 subscriptions About a third of our subscriptions (30) are routed to departments, mostly at the airport campus, and only 3 of those return for display in the library. In total we display 61 of our periodicals at this campus. Other subscriptions are shelved with books,routed to staff, or are stored and not displayed.
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