Giving Information Fluency
Priority in the Library Budget
Tom Kirk, Earlham College
Susan Barnes Whyte, Linfield
College
CIC February 16, 2013
When do you have enough?
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Staffing Levels & Responsibility
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Collections in Support of an IF Program
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Outsourcing
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New Directions & Intra-institutional
Collaboration
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Aligning Library’s Program with
Institutional Mission
Staffing Levels and Responsibility
Pushing work tasks to the lowest salary level
at which the work can be done productively
Collections/Services
Collection Development Concepts
• Reduce collecting of material as
a priority and focus on access
and discovery.
• Reduce collecting of material
and provide rapid delivery.
• Join consortia.
Collection Development Concepts
• Purchase paperbacks whenever
possible.
• Purchase used copies.
Collection Development Concepts
• Develop patron initiated processes:
• Provide patrons with access to OCLC’s
WorldCat or other large bibliographic
database;
• Link your instance of the database to
accessing tools: (1) Electronic book
collections; (2) Amazon.com; (3)
Interlibrary loan; (4) Google Books.
Collection Development Concepts
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Add patron initiated ILL requests
to databases.
• Periodicals: Reduce duplication
by removing print from collection
unless there is an overwhelming
reason for retaining the print.
• Importance of JSTOR
Central Oregon Comm. College
Reed College
Central Washington University
Saint Martin’s University
Chemeketa Community College
Seattle Pacific University
Clark College
Seattle University
Concordia University
Southern Oregon University
Eastern Oregon University
The Evergreen State College
Eastern Washington University
University of Idaho
George Fox University
University of Oregon
Lane Community College
University of Portland
Lewis & Clark College
University of Puget Sound
Linfield College
University of Washington
Mt. Hood Community College
Walla Walla College
Oregon State University
Warner Pacific College
Oregon Health & Science Univ.
Washington State University
Oregon Institute of Technology
Western Oregon University
Oregon State University
Western Washington University
Pacific University
Whitman College
Portland Community College
Willamette University
Portland State University
Consortial Projects
• Integrated Library System
• Collection Development
• Technical Services
• Digitization Projects
New Directions & Intrainstitutional Collaboration
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Digitzation
Collaboration with Teaching Center
Collaboration with Learning
Center/Tutoring
Collaboration with Computing
Services
Etc.
DigitalCommons@Linfield
Aligning Library’s Program with
Institutional Mission
Credit: Image by MIT Open CourseWare.
Higher Learning Commission
Criterion Three: Student learning and effective teaching: Quality,
Resources, and Support
“The organization’s learning resources support student learning and
effective teaching.”
The institution provides to students and instructors the infrastructure
and resources necessary to support effective teaching and learning
(technological infrastructure, scientific laboratories, libraries,
performance spaces, clinical practice sites, museum collections, as
appropriate to the institution’s offerings).
--The Criteria for Accreditation and Core Components. http://www.hlcommission.org/Informationfor-Institutions/criteria-and-core-components.html
Value of Academic Libraries
ACRL. Value of Academic Libraries:
A Comprehensive Research Review
and Report. Chicago: ACRL, 2010.
http://www.acrl.ala.org/value/
•Tom
Kirk, Earlham College
kirkto@earlham.edu
•Susan
Barnes Whyte, Linfield College
swhyte@linfield.edu