All materials purchased with Library funds are housed in the Library or accessed via the Library web site.
Priorities
- To support current course and program goals
- General order of priority:
- to support curriculum needs of students
- to support instructional needs of faculty
- to collect materials beyond the academic curriculum but related to academic success
- to collect materials of current topical interest
- to support faculty research related to course development
- Other considerations for priority:
- to remedy collection deficiencies and support the collection’s upgrading
- to support new course or program materials, but with due consideration to factors such as the library budget or permanence of course
Criteria
- Relevance to the curriculum
- Use by several disciplines
- Merit of work:
- Authoritativeness (author’s expertise and publisher’s reputation)
- Accuracy
- Appropriate level for college students
- Scope of coverage (basic, study, research, comprehensive)
- Presentation/style (accurate, clear, logical, visually appealing, physical quality)
- Unique features (original approach, illustrations)
- Currency
- Projected shelf life
- Regional relevance to British Columbia and Canada
- Relevance to the existing collection (updates, supplements, completes or fills a gap)
- Faculty recommendation
- Availability through resource sharing activities
- Cost relative to budget, or other comparable materials
- Cost relative to the overall expenditure for the discipline
- Repeated requests through interlibrary loans
- Accessibility of materials for students and staff with perceptual disabilities, especially for media (audiovisual materials) and electronic resources
