Auraria Library

Collection Development Strategies for Art and Art History Resources

Jennifer Watters and Hannah Wilson Emporia State University Spring 2012

Auraria Campus

University of Colorado Denver Metropolitan State College of Denver Community College of Denver

Auraria Library

Auraria Library

University of Colorado offers BA and BFA Programs Metro State offers BA and BFA programs CCD offers an Associates of Arts Degree including classes such as art history, art appreciation, drawing, painting and photography

Art and Art History at Auraria

Collecting Priorities:

1. Support curricular needs of all three schools including students and faculty 2. Support faculty and staff in current developments 3. Relevant to local interest of Auraria campus and the state of Colorado

4. General materials relevant to intellectual curiosity and current events

Collection Development Policy

Resources and Budgetary Restraints:

1. Benefit of electronic formats for accessibility and limited space

2. Value-added resources including added content

3. Cooperative purchasing and borrowing 4. Dynamic information delivery programs 5. Limited Duplicate of print and electronic resources

Collection Development Policy

The print collection

Multi-subject databases Art and art history specific databases Open access databases

Databases

Six consortium groups WorldCat Local Interlibrary Loan Prospector

Consortial purchasing and collective borrowing

10% budget cut on print materials 5% budget cut on e-books

15% budget cut

Collection Policy emphasis on E-resources Commuter Campus and distance learners Space limitations Alternative options for accessing images Trends in Academic Libraries

Cutting print materials

Traditional methods rely on ILL, patron requests New program in pilot phase at Auraria: MyiLibrary

Patron-driven acquisitions

Auraria Library (2011). Collection Development Policy. Breitbach, W., & Lambert, J. E. (July 01, 2011). Patron-driven ebook acquisition. Computers in Libraries, 31(6), 16-20. Fino M. D. & Lo, M. L. (October 01, 2011). New roads for patron-driven e-books: Collection development and technical services implications of a patron-driven acquisitions pilot at Rutgers. Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship, 23(4), 327-338. Johnson, P. (2009). Fundamentals of Collection Development and Management (2nd ed.). Chicago: American Library Association. Lorenzen, E. A. (2004). Selecting and Acquiring art materials in the academic library: meeting the needs of the studio artist. The Acquisitions Librarian 16(31-32), pp. 27-39. University Leadership Council (2011). Redefining the academic library. Retrieved from http://www.educationadvisoryboard.com/pdf/23634-EAB-Redefining-AcademicLibrary.pdf

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