获图书馆委员会12/6/2019批准
19年12月13日由总统内阁通过
The 图书馆's primary goals are to participate and assist in the mission of East Georgia State College (EGSC) by acquiring holdings appropriate to the mission of a two-year 学术机构. To fulfill this goal, the collections of books (print and electronic), media (CDs, videos, and DVDs), and periodicals (print and electronic), must be of sufficient number and of appropriate scholarly merit to be able to define the overall 收藏在质量上是学术的.
The collection 发展 policy recognizes the importance to take the needs and reading habits of faculty, students, and staff into account. 图书馆公开征集 and receives most of the purchase requests from the teaching faculty but certainly 接受学生和教职员的要求. This effort guarantees that the collection develops as a multi-faceted effort, embracing the largest possible array of values.
The library staff is responsible for ensuring that the collection meets the academic 学生和教师的需求. All members of 图书馆工作人员 contribute to collection 发展. The staff select titles for purchase, both print and electronic, based 根据以下标准:
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- content supports the college's curricula
- 作者和/或出版商的声誉
- need of current collection in that discipline
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The library staff concentrates on enhancing all sections of the collection and shares information received about new publications in various disciplines with Deans to gather opinions and suggestions for possible purchase. 鼓励教职员工 submit requests for purchase and solicited through email prior to purchases being 使. Requests are also accepted from students and staff.
The 图书馆's budget is not allocated based on disciplines or by Schools (Mathematics and Natural Sciences; Humanities and Social Sciences); therefore the faculty who actively participate in collection 发展 usually have their requests fulfilled which results in some areas having a larger and more current collection.
Books that are lost, stolen, or damaged are replaced based on usefulness and availability. Gifts and donations will be added to the collection if they support the instructional needs and/or reading desires of the college. 一封感谢信将寄给 donor listing the titles, but a monetary value will not be assessed. 标题是 out of print are searched for and purchased via Amazon.com.
Local resources are greatly enhanced by information accessed electronically. EGSC 图书馆 users have access to almost 620,135 electronic (e-book) titles provided by EBSCO电子书和ProQuest电子书中心. GALILEO, an initiative within the University System of Georgia, provides access to over 200 databases, of which over fifty are 参考来源. Most of the databases on GALILEO are periodical indexes many of 哪些提供全文文章. Several of the databases provide access to chapters and essays in monograph titles as well as articles in periodicals. 学院参与 in selecting the collections provided in GALILEO through RACL (Regents Academic Committee (图书馆)系统内的调查. In addition to GALILEO, the library purchases six additional electronic databases from Gale/Cengage Learning, JSTOR, Mángo Languages, 爱思唯尔和里滕豪斯.
Collection 发展 consists of two components: building the collection through purchases and donations, and, weeding the collection. 除草将基于 官方 除草政策.
The print periodical collection, like the book and electronic collections, is based mostly on suitability and usefulness in a two-year college. 几本期刊 titles are leisure and recreational reading. 提供“易于阅读”的项目 will encourage reading and will make the library a more inviting place to study and 开始研究. 图书馆工作人员进行咨询 图书馆杂志 but more so depends on suggestions 使 by the faculty who are encouraged to suggest the names of journals, magazines, and newspapers to which they believe the library should subscribe, and likewise, to suggest the cancellation of titles that are no 不再有用.
Most of the periodical subscriptions are handled by an outside subscription service. A few are purchased directly from a publisher or organization. 这些订阅 that offer free online access are linked on the library's webpage for easy access.
To ensure that all academic units of the college are equally represented in collection building and its component activity, collection weeding, the college maintains a standing 图书馆委员会. The committee includes one faculty member from each School’s unit (Humanities, Social Sciences, Math, and Sciences), one staff member, the Librarian, 及图书馆馆长. This group meets periodically to discuss matters related 收集需要和图书馆服务.
Faculty members on the committee act as liaisons between their respective units and 图书馆工作人员. Faculty, therefore, may seek input into library operations through their divisional representatives on the committee.
