Grayson County College Learning Resource Center

Collection Development Policy

Director of the Learning Resource Center and Acquisitions

The Director of the Learning Resource Center is responsible for the selection of the books, audio-visual and other materials to be acquired for the library with the aid and advice of the faculty and within the limits set by the budget. The Director will examine the recommendations and requests made by the faculty, together with items located through reviewing journals,notices of new publications, out-of-print catalogs, and other sources. The selection of new items to be acquired with the view of maintaining a balanced collection in all subject areas as well as meeting the curricular needs of the subjects taught.

Departmental Chairmen and Acquisitions

Deparatmental chairmen are urged to establish within their departments procedures for initiating recommendations for acquisitions with will develop the collection for the use of their students in areas of curricular interest under their jurisdiction.

Faculty members and Acquisitions

Faculty members, particularly those who teach the only section or sections of a course and those who each in programs offered only in the evening division, are urged to make their recommendations for purchase through their department chairmen.

Budget Distributions

Book budgets are not assigned specifically to each department. The procedures followed are sufficiently flexible to accommodate all reasonable instructional needs.

Priorities

Priority for books and other materials to be purchased for the library is given to those materials which meet direct curricular needs in the courses offered, including items needed for class assignments, collateral reading, references made in the textbooks, supplemental individual study or term papers and reports, including those reference and bibliographical tools which will facilitate finding and using these materials.

Secondary Consideration

After the primary needs have been met, consideration may be given to other desirable materials which will give balance to the collection or meet vocational, avocational, cultural or special interests or needs of the student body and the faculty.

Junior and Community College Materials

Beacause of the nature and mission of this institution, a collection of materials pertaining to Two-Year colleges will be acquired.

Materials not normally purchased

Rare books and first editions, per se.

Extensive collections of material in limited subject areas.

Research materials (post-graduate level materials)

Books in languages not taught at the College

Current fiction

Highly specialized technical books.

Textbooks for courses offered at the College

Expensive materials easily available elsewhere in Grayson County. Updated

Multiple Copies

Multiple copoies will be acquqired where the needs of the students and the continued demand make additional copies necessary.

Out-of-Print Materials

Out-of-print materials will meet the same criteria for purchase as other books. where possible, modern reprints will be preferred to out-of-print originals.

Gifts

Gift materials required an outlay of library staff time and processing costs. They will be accepted only if the library may dispose of them if their physical condition, obsolescence of the contents, or failure to be of sufficient use to the clientele of the library makes them undesirable. should any large, unique, or significant collection in a limited subject area be offered as a gift, it might be judged in the value of the collection as a whole to the library, and not on the value of the individual items in the collection. If requested, library staff will prepare a receipt for items donated ; however, it is the responsiblity of the donor to assign a value to the donation for his/her tax purposes.

Periodical Subscriptions

Peridical subscriptions will be entered after taking into consideration:

• curricular needs
• inclusion in full-text databases
• interests of the students and faculty
• Inclusion in periodical indexes
• availabililty in other libraries in Grayson County
• cost of subscription
• near duplicate materials already received.

whenever possible, periodical subscriptions will be entered to start at the beginning of the fiscal year.