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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Book Budget Allocation
Posted by communitycollegelibraries on February 10, 2009
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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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