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Posts Tagged ‘budgets’

Project Muse vs. JSTOR

Posted by communitycollegelibraries on February 12, 2009

Recently, the topics of Project Muse and JSTOR have come up on the CJCLS list. What’s the difference? Are these subscriptions worth it for two-year schools? Here’s a summary of what people said:

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Book Budget Allocation

Posted by communitycollegelibraries on February 10, 2009

How do community college libraries allocate their collection development budgets among various departments?  I was curious about how other librarians handles this–the following is a brief breakdown of their responses I got from the CJCLS listserv some time back:

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Collection Development, Reference & Basic Skills–Hot Topic Summer 08

Posted by communitycollegelibraries on January 20, 2009

Notes from ALA Annual Community College Hot Topics Discussion about collection development, reference, and basic skills

Thanks to David Wright for this summary!

Collection Development, Reference, & Basic Skills
Vendors and Community Colleges
Educate vendors about community college budgets.  JSTOR has a community college model.  It seems that other vendors don’t listen.  EBSCO has a vocational database.  Carnegie classification is a “fairer” system than FTE.   Jean Smith has an article on this topic:

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